Despite the cut made in the Chapel Hill school budget by the county board of education, the Chapel Hill school will continue to give instruction, without charge, to children from outside the school district.
But, decides the Chapel Hill school board, this will be a temporary arrangement. An election will be held, probably in winter, to determine whether a uniform tax shall be levied throughout the township. If the voters say yes to that, then the right to attend the Chapel Hill and Carrboro schools will belong to every child in the township, and the cost will be equitably divided. As it is now, both Chapel Hill and Carrboro, at the expense of their own taxpayers, are education children from the country. If the proposal for a uniform township tax is not approved by the voters then the Chapel Hill school will, in accordance with its legal right call upon the county to pay tuition for six months for the outside pupils; and if they attend for the whole nine-months term, then the parents will have to pay the three months’ tuition.
As a result of the county board’s cut in the allowance to Chapel Hill, from $24,500 to $18,100, the school here is cutting the number of its teachers from 21 to 18.
A home economics teacher will be retained since the county board has agreed to pay $630 toward her salary, but it is possible that agriculture may have to be dropped.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, June 19, 1925
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