SR_DPI_DNE_Special_Subject_File_B1F15_Equalization_Education_Opportunities_028

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"2.High Schools. In order to equalize the educational opportunity for all of the citizens of North Carolina, an accredited, comprehensive high school should be available to every person of high school age. Along with the reorganization and consolidation of schools, the Committee is of the opinion that high school facilities should be provided for every child wherever these facilities are not already available."
The Committee recommendations were equally as definite and positive as this statement of need. Note the following:
"a. That the administrative units prepare plans showing proposed consolidations, including transportation equipment necessary, and giving facts as to present school indebtness and the financial ability of the unit to provide further school facilities.
b. That such plans be submitted to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for approval.
c. That a method of financing be devised for the completion of the proposed approved consolidation plans for all races within six years following the end of the war. Some of the units may be able to finance their programs from reserves or from other local sources.
4. That this Legislature (1945) investigate the possibility of providing aid in some manner, probably,
(1) As a loan at a low rate of interest
(2) As a loan without interest
(3) As part loan and grant
(4) As a direct grant
Such funds could be applied uniformly to all units alike regardless of ability, present indebtnes, and need; of they could be distributed in the form of an equalization fund. The Committee is of the opinion that the time has come when some such basis should be used, and recommends that careful consideration be given to this plan."
Committee statements and recommendations on all the seven poitns of the study were quits as cogent and emphatic as are those quoted above. The State Board of Education approved the reports and recommendations of its Committee on Negro Education on January 23