Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.


Annual Report OF the Comm assioner
Of Education.
THE United States Commissioner OF Educl-
ton has published his annual report for 1873.
Notwithstanding the disasters which have
fallen upon the Industries Of the country, he
states that on the whole the past year was
one of substantial progress In educational
matters.
In Alabama the Board Of Education has Ia
bored under great embarrassment, from the
difficulty Of securing from an impoverished
people the needful funds for tie support of
free schools.
Arkansas has labored under similar embar-
rassment with respect to funds.
Louisiana has struggled through the year
under kindred financial troubles with the two
neighboring States just named
The new State Superintendent Of lnstruc-
tion In Florida reports an increase of tifty-six
schools in 1873, making, with LIB added in
1872, an addition Of 1863 TO the 33l previously
existent.
Georgia. after cessation of public school
teaching for year except in certain towns),
has again set her schools in operation, and an
earnest Superintendent is doing obviously his
best to make the new effort q success.
South Carolina shows an increase of rs free
schools and 147 lew school-houses over 1877.
with an additioaal school attendance of 7,42l,
and an additional expenditure of Sl13,9Sl.31
for public schools.
North Carolina has increased by about AZ
per cent her receipts for free schools and by
about 100 per cent the attendance of them.
Kentucky has friends OF education who
have pressed forward, amending her School
law, advancing the qualifications Of her teach
ers, improving her school houses and taking
steps toward a general education OF her
colored population.
+ In Virginia, though there has been slight
falling off In receipts and expenditures for
school purposes, as well as In enrolment and
average attendance, there are 50l new schools,
while q great number Of school houses were
built during the year.
The returns from Tennessee are imperfect,
but enough appears to indicate that the or
ganization of the State system has gone
steadily forward under the direction OF the
Superintendent.
Maryland has heightened her school year
sixteen days; expended for teachers salaries
$4,000 more than in 1872; for school. houses
$1,000 more, and for general school purposes
$97, O8S more: at the same time adding II 1893
to her school enrolment and making fair
beginnings in an effort to give her colored
children equal advantages for education with
the whites.
Delaware still remains without any State
supervision of schools, but in her two lower
counties some Improvement is observable.
Pennsylvania shows an increase of twenty
two school districts, of 3O6 schools, of 3O9
graded schools, of 721 teachers, and of six
days in the average duration of her school
term, with an aggregate OF school property
estimated at $21, 750, 200, and total expendi-
ture for school purposes Of $s,Sl2e69.2o
New Jersey reports eighty-three new school
houses, with great improvement in the con-
dition OF the older ones; an increase OF three
days In the average school term; liberal adj
vance in teachers salaries; ~, 24474 beyond
1872 for building and repairing schools;
$233, 99S13 beyond for general school pur.
poses, and $5SS.040 beyond the estimated
value Of school property.
New York reports receipt OF 1856,
OFT 80 for public-school purposes, and an ex
pcnditure OF $10,418,5SS for the same, with q
total expenditure Of size, 652 ,93O57 In twelve
years past. OF the grand annual expendi
ture nearly $7,0O0,000 have gone for the sala
ries of teachers; nearly 81, 900 for building
| and improving school-houses; STA, 1923 fol
supporting eight normal schools, and 81,
690.W for supply OF school instruction to Tho
few Indians in the State
Connecticut publishes decade-table show
ing that, though the number of children
enumerated has increased only 81 ,237 In ten
years, the increase Of interest in public schools
has been such as to raise the amount secured
for them from all sources TO 81 Az, 669.0l in
1873 against AE90, 1920 In 1864.
Rhode Island shows that In 1868 her towns
raised nearly 100000 for the support OF
schools, and that in 1878 the same towns
raised over $500, 600 for the same purpose
The increase of schools in the same time was
207: Of teachers, 9S.
The returns from Massachusetts, for the
school year 1S71-'72 show $5,476, 765 raised
by taxation for public schools alone The es-
timated value Of school. houses In the State
ut thn u1n NF
against $l3, no, 0d9 at the beginning OF 1870
176 high schools and tifty-eight incorporated
academies are returned.
Maine shows smaller number enrolled In
schools, but a decidedly better average attend
ance.
New Hampshire presents 222 new or newly
repaired school houses, "A new schools, 81 ad
age attendance.
Vermont, reporting biennially, makes nc
statement as to public schools for 1873.
Ohio having changed the legal school age
from 5.2l to 6-2l exhibits, probably from this
cause, an apparent falling Off in school popu
lation of 1855. She raised In 1873 fol
school purposes, s7,7o5,eo3, against 1920,
Michigan raised for school purposes, in
1878, $3,939,5ss, against S35634T9 in 1872
The condition of the public schools is report
ed to have much improved under count,
supervision.
| Indiana, without giving fun statistics fol
| 1878, claims net increase Of school revenue
| amounting to $lbS5Sl over 1872 with 465 new
| school houses, built at cost of $872,g0O. The
permanent school fund has been augmented
and more than the usual amount raised by
| taxation.
Illinois shows a school population larger by
81 1876 than In 1872, smaller enrolment In
| schools, but an average attendance about The
same. Her school revenue, S9,259,44l, has
been 81 3l9 beyond that Of the preceding
year.
Wisconsin, for comparatively new State
without the aid Of large and wealthy cities
has raised for school purposes s2,62S027
and expended for repairs OF school-house'
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