The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-11-04

There are at the present time, under the juriS-
dictiOn of the Board Of Education and care of
the school officers, forty-six grammar schools,
for boys exclusively fOrty-siX similar schools
for girls; and one hundred and four primary
schools, for both boys and girls; also twenty |
schools for colored children making a total of
two hundred and sixteen schools, besides those !
connected with the asylums and other corporate
institutions. These schools are entirely free,
and the pupils are not subject TO any charge
whatever either for fuel, tuition, books. or sta
tionery. In fact the schools of the city of New
York are provided by the public, and furnished
with all the necessary appliances of apparatus,
textbooks, teachers, &c. for thorough instruc-
ton in all the departments of learning, from
the alphabet to the complete classical, scion
tific, and literary education obtained in the
best colleges in the United States. At this time
there are employed in conducting the public
schools one thousand and nincty-tour teachers,
whose aggregate salaries amount to over three
hundred thousand dollars Il year. Upon this
corps of teachers devOlyc the care and training
OF one hundred and forty thousand children,
who have received. to greater or less degree,
its benefits during the past year. The Board
of education are erecting six new school houses
of the largest class which, when complete !,
will afford accommodation for about ten thou
sand more. Besides the schools provided Icy
| the Board of Education, the Catholics have
,cnteen schools, with five thousand six hundred
and eightyscvcn pupils; the Jews have seven
with eight hundred and fifty seven pupils the
Prcsby terians have three, with two hundred
and fifty pupils the Episcopaiians have two.
with two hundred and five pupils; the Dutch
Reformed have one, with one hundred aud six
| ty pupils, AMI there are Blk industrial schouls,
with seven hundred and twcnty-One pupils.
The Catholic schools participate in the appor-
tionmcnt of the school moneys. The other de-
nominational schools are sustained by their re-
spcc;ivc denominations. Ia the Jewish school,
there are thirty three teachers, and in all the
Others about seventy. The money appropriate
ed for the support Of the public school system
eXccel Is six hundred thousand dollars per all
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