The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-03-11
PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Report of the State Superintendent Of Public
Schools.
The State Superintendent of Public instruction,
Victor NJ Rice, has forwarded to the Legislature his
fourteenth annual report from which the following
items are cleaned
The number Of school districts in the State, as re-
number The sGV eSpsded last for
their erection and Improvement was Sits lo7,
raised isoiaAs2, aud the rural districts
$7oo, ga The aggregate for ten years past
The rural districts, ss22s,s72 The present value OF
school buildings ana sites is estimated at sle $685.
SO, $50, Sill The average value OF school houses In
the cities is $50 s44 In the rural districts $685. The
the school year ending September so, 1867 was
$5,1Ol,7 5A end by the State tax sl,l4s,422.
when General John A. Dix was superintendent Of
Of assfunsss The he, number D, Of volumes
Is estimated at so2s,7sa Tho money expended
money appropriated for this purpose from the United
States Deposit Fund annually Is s55o0o to the cities,
S to d the rural districts The expendl
cities, sloo9ls and in rural districts $2o74s. New
York city paid alone s177,Os6. The amount ex-
The number Of children between five and twenty.
one years Of age is reported at l,37e,os2;
DISTRICTS ts me previous year 'n the ru m
gregate was l,36.,e75. OF the number so reported
9ie,2o3 attended school, The average attendance at
school per day was 1891 The entire attendance ut
educational institutions is set down as follows:-
Colleges 2,loo; academies 3t,e0l; private schools,
722ol; common schools, $40 2os; total loss los. The
average time that schools were taught for the year
was thirty weeks and three days In the country aud
forty-one weeks aud four days in the cities. Tho
males, 52Tl; females, 2l,2is. The amount expended
for teachers wages was sl,s2c, 47lin the cities,
previous year the amount was s4,55s,sol. The aver
age annual salary OF teacher Is s62l in the cities
ana S2l7 In the rural districts,
After including oil expenditures for school DUR
poses Mr.. Rice makes the entire actual expenses Of
schools In the state for the last school year 10 be
s75s3 COLIN the cities ss,oo2so3 and in the rural
districts s3eo0,s eos. The previous year the amount
was s6,63 9a9-show!ng an Increase OF 1850, 2o5
me amnant OF pubic money ut the disposal OF the
department for school purposes during the current
year. is So 400 1885, 1t Is obtained from the following
sources:-From the Common School fund, sl55,ooO;
from the United States Deposit fund, $l65,000 from
proceeds of the State tax, s2oso1a5. viii be ap
piled as follows:-
Support OF schools for the current year, in.
Guiding supervision. .................. 2,343 200
large portion Of the report is devoted to m sc
count OF the workings OF the various societies for the
reclamation OF juvenile delinquents, and the docu-
ment concludes by recommending the levying OF
tax "ior five successive years OF one-eghth OF mill
upon each dollar of taxable property la the state"
lac superintendent remarks:-"I might hesitate to
puu .hN eAitSn.J
OF the greatest Importance. There are outside of
tho cities 1869 districts that do not own
the sites OF their school houses; 1857 In
which the school houses are not separated
from the highway by any enclosure and 27S with
out The appurtenanoes required by modesy ana de-
cency. Tie superintendent also suggests the crea
ton OF tie Office o school visitor the term to be one
year. and the position TO be filled By women, three
In each school disrcg these visitors To perform the
duties apperiaIniag librarians school Inspectors,
stPienc directors, iruant police, family advisers,
inrni.u ana building inspectors ana investigators
u faulty circumstances and G. make annual reports
IN VT ing 10 the school COMMISSIONERS statine the
results Of their official investigations condition OF
Tie libraries, and adding such recommendations az
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