Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-25
miscellaneous.
COMMON SCHOOL FACTS.


sum for the support of schools equal to forty
cents for each inhabitant. Every county in Maine
has school commissioner, at a salary Of two hun
drcd dolors, who must spend at least Fifty days, a
year, in examining the schools of his county.
New UANrsnlRE spent, during 1858, the sum Of
500 ,lD2 upon her common schools, of which she
has 2,3lO. The male teachers are paid an average
Of Sl5.6S month and their board the female
teachers only S5.96- less HdB haJ! Now Hamp-
shire has taken measures to found manual-labor
school ON the shores Of Long Pond, near Concord,
for the reform Of juvenile delinquents.
VERuoxr maintains 1854 common schools, ut nm
annual cost OF S2l7 ,IO2 pays her male teachers
$3.50 month, and her female teachers 1854, ex-
elusive Of board. The schools open, an
average, twcnty-four weeks in the year; and they
conttin thiry-nine pupils each, whose education
costs the State S225 each per annum.
MNsAcnrsETrs oxpcnds very nearly the exact
sum Of a million dollars year in the support of
her 1886 public schools besides the half million
that is paid to private schools and colleges Of
which there are about eight hundred and twenty.
The male teachers are paid average S3T.2j per
month; the female teachers. Slj.36; and the
schools are open seven and half months in the
year. Tho school libraries contain, altogether,
0l,j39 volumes; and apparatus to the amount OF
S23,S2 has been distributed. The State supports
three Normal schools and one Reform school. In
the lattcr the boys work six hours day. and study
four.
RnoDs ISLAND boasts 335 schools which are
maintained at annual cost Of Sis, 100. In this
State, the militia Communication tax is applied to the
support OF the schools.
CoNNnricrT has l,Gi2 public schools, Normal
school, Reform school, and 403 private schools.
The school fund alone yields revenue Of Sli3, ,G93.
Mule teachers are paid, on an average, $3.50 per
month femlles $500. OF the teachers employed
last year, 220 had had tea years experience; l30.
five years. 200, three years $40 less than one
year; and forty-fye schools were broken up
through the ncOmpetcncy Of the the teacher
Summer schools were kept in all the districts ox-
ecpt one hundred and twelve.
NEw-YoRK expended, in the year 1862. the sum
Of S2,249 Sll upon her public schools, which num-
Der ll,jSi. There also ,472 private schools in
this State. The number of children taught during
tho year was SG2,j07, Of whom 4,4lG were colored.
There are thirty public schools composed exclusive
y Of colorcd children and several schools for the
indian children in the Reservations. The number
Of volumes in the district libraries is a little over
million and half The schools are kept open an
average of seven and half months but there
we're more than 100000 children who attended
school less than two months in the year 1852
Aew-Nork has n Normal school, n High school,
and 1--WE bccvc) three Reform schools or houses Of
refuge In the Normal school, there are usually
from ten to fifteen Indian youths, preparing to be-
come teachers of their own people
New JERSEY has 100 common schools supported
by an annual expenditure of S272, 737. The whole
number Of children under instruction is 9I,G05, of
whom 1853 are colored. New Jersey has an in
vested school fund of very nearly $4,000.
PENNSYLVANIA maintains 5000 public schools ut
cost of a little more than n million dollars wear
The average rate of compensation for male teach
ers is $50 per month for females 81 .4G; but
tho schools are kept open on an average only five
months in the year. In Philadelphia there are
Normal and High school. The public schools of
Philadelphia cost SIG year, for each pupil.
DELAWARE has 236 common schools, and expend.
S49,4G9 year in their support.
MARYLAND has n school fund of Sl5000O par
ticulars respecting the expenditure of which we dc
not possess.
VIRGINIA. so far rs we know, has no organized
system Of public schools; nor webeeve have North
Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas
SoUru CAROLINA supports 1923 common schools
attended by 0O22 pupils, at an annual cost of S4O,-
06O. Governor Means, in his message. November.
1897, says: There seems to be n general belief
that it (the Free School System) works badly OK.
cept in large cities. Conducted as they are in tho
country do not hesitate 10 pronounce it an almost
useless expenditure Of the public fund yet am
lar from being willing to recommend discontinue
ance ot the appropriation. | sure the system
could be 50 altered and improved us to work well
with US lie recommends the appointment of
suitable and competent person to travel over the
State to witness its operations and suggest improve
ments.
GEORGIA has a school fund Of 500, ,0s6, the inter
Of which is divided among the counties, according
to the population.
MISSISSIPPI has no uniform school SYSTEM Eacl
township has school fund arising from the lease
Of lands granted by Congress for common school
purposes every sixteenth section in each township
having been so granted. These lands are leased
mostly for ninoty-ninc years The money thence
arising is loaned annually, ut not less than eight
nor moro than ten per cent per annum interest
Ihis nterrSt IS the amount applied to tuition, ETC.
annually irom The township fund. There is also a
county fund, arisI rom fines foreitures licenses
etc. which IS distributed in those townships thai
afe destitute or have but small school fund.
LOUISIANA imposes a tax for school purposes O
one mill on dollar, and poll tax of one dollar OF
each white inhabitant. There is also school fun,
OF SJ@1'O23. The State supports 704 schools, anC
ex2s ads S2j,0)) yclr upon them. Yet. there ar,
more than 10000 white children in the State who
do not attend school at all.
TENNESSEE has a school fund Of nearly million
and half OF dollars.
Tennessee, and expends Sll 600 year for schoo
purposes but out Of the 2l5 1876 children in Ia,
State, only 90, 1895 attend school.
Quo spends somewhat more than 5000 OO0 4
year in maintaining her . giG schools In one ycal
--lSj2-Ohio built l8i school houses. The Stat
is in earnest on the subject Of education.
INDIANA holds property, in trust, for the cdnca
tloh Oh her chuufen, Which ~ valued at five mil
lions o. dollars. The income OF this property
which consists chiefly Of land, is to be devoted ex
eipsiyey aud for ever to the support of FREE
schools.
ILLINOIS has school fund Of nearly million o
dollars, Wbick the State borrowed solse years oo
atan Interest OF sir per cent The State can boas
OF 5Goo seheol honses and scventy-sir seooi libra
sles- Male teachers receive an average of Sl7.64a
month females Sl0.32, and the schools ore kent
open SIX months and twenty-three days in tie
year
lissopRi has school fund of half a million
AHd. ia addition To- ihis the LeeisJatDre hos a1nl,
priatse onefsurth VI the revenues af The state fo
she support Of the iree sehaGls, which sNells H.
nmopnt 70 le annpnllr disfriinfnA 81 Il 40 M