Excerpt from The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Report of the Board of Education in Accordance With the Provisions of Chapter 70, Resolves of 1911, in the Matter of the Support of Public Education; Including Also Report Required Under Chapter 39, Resolves of 1912, Relating to the Payment of Transportat The State gives no financial assistance towards the support of public education in towns and cities having a valuation of more than The income of the Massachusetts School Fund, amounting to about annually, is apportioned among towns having a valuation not in excess of and these towns are also aided by special appropriations from the treasury of the Commonwealth towards the payments of the salaries of school superintendents. The State also grants aid towards the provision of high school education to towns having fewer than 500 families. The data presented in Appendix A will show that in many of the smaller towns of the State the financial aid thus given by the State forms an important part of the total revenue used for school purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.