Los Angeles Daily Herald

State School Fund for Next Year.

There is the usual amount of irregularity in the new sections of our school law added by the last session of the Legislature. The means for raising the required amount of money is not provided, and there is an irregularity in the distribution of the fund. The object of the compilers of the law, which is too long for reproduction in our columns, appears to have been to compel the rich and more densely populated counties to furnish the funds for the maintenance of schools in poorer localities, where the full amount could not be raised without resort to special taxation. The irregularity of apportionment will be seen by glancing at the tabular statement below. Mendocino county, with little more than one-third the number of children, receives more than one-half the amount apportioned to Los Angeles county, while Alameda county, with a greater number of children, receives little more than half the amount awarded to Los Angeles county. Sacramento county, with a less number of children, receives a larger apportionment than Los Angeles county. The disproportion, to a greater or less degree, is noticeable in all the counties, from Alameda to Yuba. The aggregate apportionment amounts to $1,241,400, yet under the law only $1,100,000 can be raised. In the tabular statement the number of children are given as far as last report:

Total $1,241,400; 111,610 children.

COUNTY.	Apportionment.	No. of Children.
Alameda	$31,000	6,751
Alpine	2,000	113
Amador	20,500	2,134
Butte	29,300	2,707
Calaveras	21,500	2,215
Colusa	21,300	1,686
Contra Costa	24,500	2,003
Del Norte	4,500	348
El Dorado	24,000	2,304
Fresno	11,500	1,055
Humboldt	19,500	2,059
Inyo	4,000	294
Kern	6,500	614
Klamath	2,500	276
Lake	12,300	1,021
Lassen	6,500	554
Los Angeles	48,500	6,101
Marin	14,300	1,410
Mariposa	9,000	956
Mendocino	26,000	2,407
Merced	11,000	927
Mono	2,000	90
Monterey	36,000	3,643
Napa	28,900	2,109
Nevada	35,000	4,154
Placer	25,100	2,166
Plumas	12,500	761
Sacramento	49,100	5,425
San Bernardino	14,000	1,562
San Diego	12,800	1,297
San Francisco	215,000	34,469
San Joaquin	47,900	4,909
San Luis Obispo	15,500	1,633
San Mateo	18,300	1,978
Santa Barbara	12,000	1,706
Santa Clara	55,000	6,762
Santa Cruz	22,500	2,627
Shasta	15,300	1,327
Sierra	12,100	980
Siskiyou	29,000	2,400
Solano	32,500	3,716
Sonoma	59,800	5,899
Stanislaus	20,500	1,712
Sutter	18,000	1,290
Tehama	12,000	1,194
Trinity	5,500	530
Tulare	19,000	1,751
Tuolumne	15,500	1,794
Ventura	8,500	937
Yolo	24,300	2,119
Yuba	23,300	2,385