Proposals submitted by a committee of the Japanese Residents' Corpora tion for revision of the system of education in the Settlement have been considered by the Shanghai Municipal Council. On Wednesday members had further details of the scheme submitted by the Japanese corporation explained to them by Mr K. Sugimoto and Mr. ¥. tkeda, representing the corporation. No decision Was arrived at, the board adjourning before the discussion of the proposals had been completed, The proposals were:
(Q) That the Council abandon its present aystem of controlling anc managing municipal schools That the Council distribute subsidies to local schools which are being controlled and managed by' various foreign communities; (3) That the fund to be annually appropriated hereafter to such suh-sidies be fixed at the sum as bud-elted for the fiscal year 1994, includ-Ing the ordinary and extraordinary expenditure, as its standard; (4). That the ratio of appropriations} to each Individual foreign schoo! be based on the number of school children accommodated therein or on the' number of ratepayers to the Shanghai Municipal Council.
'A report submitted fo the meeting by the Acting Treasurer and Control Ter stated that in 1983 the foreign children attending municipal and Brant-aided schools, numbered 6,501, of whom about one-half were Japan-exe, The 1934 Budget provided for fan ordinary expenditure of $1,068,490 fon foreign education. If appropriations to forelgm schools were based fon the number of children therein, the Japanese schools would receive roughly $500,000 in place of the grant of $118,000 for 1034. If, as recommended in the memorandum of the corporation, this principle were applied to both ordinary and extra ordinary expenditure, which were estimated at $1,480,000 in 1994, the total amount accruing to the Japanese schools would be rather more than $700,000, In 1984 the Japanese Resi-in dents' Corporation' contribution in Support of Japanese schools was: estimated at $927,000, the necessity For which was related to the low scale of fees in force. Only a minority of the children paid the maximum fee of $5 a month.
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