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PAGE SUPERINTENDENT NOT READY TO SCREAM WOLF YETAlthough the Page school district would be affected if the federal government withdraws aid for Indian school children it would not be as great as that felt in the Tuba City school district.With a loss of money for federally affected students the Tuba City district could be faced with a tax rate of almost $37.00 per hundred valuation, according to recent reports in state newspapers.Page's loss would be minimal, compared to other districts but we could expect an increase of $2.65 per hundred, more or less, as a result of the proposed cutback by President Nixon.State and federal representatives have been meeting recently concerning the issue. There is a possible statewide loss of close to $12 million in federal impact school aid to school districts. Those most affected are districts adjacent to Indian Reservations and military bases.Politicians # are running “scared” over the issue but Page School Superintendent Ray Bradshaw is more optimistic about the situation.“We sometimes receive seventy percent, eighty percent or ninety percent of our entitlement. We are expecting 100% of our current years entitlement , which would amount to approximately 102♦thousand dollars inthe'High School district and 410 thousand dollars in the Elementary district would have been raised by taxes and would have been raised by taxes and would have amounted to an additional $2.65 on the present tax ratefor schools. Bradshaw%said.Impact aid is granted for pupils whose parents live onFederal property or work on Federal property or both. The last few years havecatv ried the threat of qualifying only students whose parents both live and work on Federal property. This idea ran contrary to thoughts of Congressmen and has not been pushed bythe administration.The Page School Administration has lived through impact aid crises, threats and ' partial payments and feels that should impact aid be discontinued, other channels of funding will develop. Bradshaw said, Revenue sharing with the state would permit states to have funds for their own priorities and adequate funding for education has been high in Arizona's priorities. Bradshaw said.The U.S. Office of Education has kept die schools that receive Federal impact aid, informed of the precarious position of impact-aid for the last eight years.Ii*:%RAY BRADSHAW TELLS OF PLANS TO TAKE IT EASYRay Bradshaw, Superintendent of Schools in Page since 1958, announced last week that he would not seek re-appointment to the position of Superintendent for the next school year.The announcement was made as the Page School^BooictMtefid' its meeting to review and consider personnel for the 1973-74 school term.An education career that began with a private school in Tucson in 1933 while workingon his B.A. Degree included seven years as social studies teacher and coach at the Amphitheater Schools in Tucson, eleven years with the Flagstaff Schools as teacher, assistant coach, and finally principal before being appointed as Administrator of the Page AccommodationSchool'by Mrs. Bessie KiddBest, who has now retired as Coconino County Superintendent of Schools.Continued on Page 2• *vRAY BRADSHAW
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Lake Powell Chronicle
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Wed, Feb 28, 1973
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