European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Donna Dickenson a staff writer if dollars Are the sole measuring Rod a new York state Pupil gets Al most three times the education of Mississippi child. New York the highest school spender of the 50 states paid out $912 for each Pupil in average daily attendance last year. That sum was a Little less than three times Mississippi s countrywide Low$315 per child. Obviously High spending does t guar Antee Good education. But there May be some connection Mississippi also has an illiteracy rate about twice the National average. In1w5 roughly 37 per cent of the state s army volunteers and draftees failed their induction mental tests compared to 21 per cent of the new yorkers. This apparent inequality in our Landof equal Opportunity can be traced largely to the fact that new York has lower proportion of students and More Money to spend. When one calculates school age children As a per cent of the total popu lation Mississippi ranks third highest while new York has the lowest proportion in the country. But if one figures the personal income available preschool age child he will find new York highest with Over $14,000, Mississippi lowest with about $5,000. The amount spent on each Pupil is Only one Way education policies vary throughout the states according to the National education association. Delaware schools for example get about 75 per cent of their revenues from the state government the Nebraska stat administration pays Only 5 per cent of school costs with local communities footing about 85 per cent of the Bill. Between these wide extremes lies the National average with 40 per cent of the Cost covered by the state and 52per cent paid by the township. Mississippi receives about 20 per Centof its school expenses from the Federal government which pays Wyoming only4 per cent of that state s education costs. The . Average is 8 per cent but the Federal government usually gives a larger amount to Low income states. Aid to private and parochial schools a question which involves the Church state separation controversy Points up More differences among the states. While 20 states authorize transportation for Church pupils 19 forbid it six states provide textbooks to nonpublic schools but eight prohibit such service. The inconsistency is carried eve further in four states Iowa Kentucky Mississippi and Massachusetts. The give parochial schools one of the two services transportation or texts but forbid the other. Not Only do the states differ among themselves some have Church school Pou cies at Odds with Washington stand. The supreme court ruled in 1947 that parochial school transportation does t violate the first amendment s guarantee against the establishment of religion. But some state consist nations Are even More rigid on this question than the Bill of rights says the department of health education an welfare. Several state courts have found that busing religious school students would crack the Wall of separation betwee Church and state. The Issue is hot in new York where the state Constitution Al convention wants to end the ban on Aid for Church  Aid to education might Iron out some of the inequalities and inconsistencies among the states. The 1965 elementary and secondary education act benefits religious schools As Well As Public ones. Nonpublic Pupil scan share in educational radio and to dual enrolment plans after school programs Mobile services and remedial Reading  Bill puts the emphasis on help ing the individual it assumes that each american child is entitled to a free education whether he attends pub Lic or private school said Phil King of the National education  Law is carefully worded to avoid the Church state  Federal Aid May also help spread the wealth of education dollars. As part of the Antipoverty program it Aims first at Low income areas covering anything from Mobile science laboratories to clothing and shoes for poor pupils. Officials of the . Dependent schools european area us Desea at Karlsruhe Germany have budgeted$46 million As provided by Congress for the 1967-68 school year to educate some100,000 1st to 12th Grade students of american military families living at army Navy and air Force stations  the us Desea system of 223 schools these funds cover Only the costs of new text books supplies and salaries for 4,000 . Teachers 900 local National teachers and clerks and 500 superintendents principals assistant principals and the Karlsruhe directorate  $46 million figure however does not include expenditures for kindergartens maintenance of school build Ings and military posts costs for utilities and bus transportation of students As compared with metropolitan schools systems in the United states these latter expenses would add an additional $100 a year to the operating costs for each student thus the current average per Pupil expenditure is about $560 based on our enrolment in the defense department dependent schools in Europe a us Desea spokesman said. Mass.557 s740-$912 s430tos669 picks state igoyt.-1 39j a Sis pm him m cent of Revenue from local government per cent of Revenue from state government per cent of Revenue from Federal government Waii h 10 or zip or i Spratl v i  i thursday september 14, 1967 the stars and stripes Pago 11