Major MALONEasked the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the additional financial burden placed on local education authorities consequent on the new method in calculating the necessitous grants, he is prepared to give assistance to those heavily-rated districts so that the grants for this year will be at least equal to that of last?
§ Mr. FISHERThe total grants for this year cannot be finally ascertained until the accounts for the year are completed and rendered to the Board, but upon such information as is at present available it is unlikely that the total grant in aid of 433W elementary education in any area will be less than that of last year. The increased grant to highly rated areas, payable this year under Article 6 of the Substantive Grant Regulations, is not properly comparable with the grant to necessitous areas payable in previous years, as the ordinary grant to which it is related has been entirely remodelled.