The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-29
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES.

isiana elected Hon. Robt NJ. Lusher,
patriot. a gentleman, an accomplished
scholar, and very devoted and eflclen'
friend of education, has prepared an annual
report to the General Assembly, signing 1t es
State Superintendent of Public Education,
for the year 1874. The document IS printed
at the expense Of the State, in a volume Of
three hundred and fourteen pages and
bound copy has besn placed upon our table
with the compliments Of some obliging per.
sou, probably the distinguished author.
From this costly record Of what has been
done by the Radical officials who manipulate
the school money we will present few state
ments, not vouching for them as facts, and @
few figures, with the cautionary remark that
too implicit trust must not he placed in the
old maxim about the truth of figures.
The number of children between six and
txenty-one years Of age il Louisiana, plain
and colored, is set down q. 2SO,3o7 in 1874,
against 272, 1874 in 1873; "gain Of sO53,
which is a somewhat remarkable gain, show
! ing that the children who were only five years
old in 1873 multiplied somewhat by passing
into their sixth year. The number Of 1874 is
likewise contrasted with the 9G,522 Of 1861,
when only white children were counted, while
| the difference lisa, 865) is claimed as another
"gsin."
The number of public schools is 1889, or
175 more than in 1873.
Number of children enrolled, "a, 3O9
Cost of public schools in 1874 1888, O6S, in
1873 SG78. 473; cost per annum for each
child, Sill.
Number Of teachers in 1874, males 1917,
females 697, total 1894; average salary Of
teachers per month $40; whole number Of
months taught 1861; average to each school
Al months; number of school districts 473;
new school houses built III; present value Of
school houses and sites S777.O11; estimated
value Of school apparatus $4,000, and OF
school furniture S92, 434.
This magnificent institution has cost to the
State 500, 55l, being S35, $40 for debts, $6Ol,-
1853 for teachers salaries, $43, $50 for rent Of
school houses, S16,SS5 for repairs, Sl1.O25
for furniture, S32, 9SS for fuel and incidentals,
$1,000 Tor school apparatus, $685. for school
house sites, SlO,729 for building schoo!
houses and TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for the salaries of Off GERS
and office expenses, contingent expenses and
travelling expenses, which, we will add, is
against twenty-five hundred dollars which
There was balance Of so, $50 on hand and
S19,459 in the hands Of the Treasurer not
accounted for, which may not be case to
which the remark respecting the relative value
OF birds in hand and in the bush will strictly
apply.
The principal receipts into the the school
treasury were S3l4,SlS from State appropria-
tons, S272,659 from corporate authorities,
s4O,677 from interest on school lands sold.
500, G53 from former tressurers, and S35, 900
appropriated for officers salaries. The in
crease Of expenditures over 1873 was: Cash,
sllO sos; certificates, Sl2l, 1882. (all issued to
New Orleans teachers; total, S232,OOO.
Average cost of tuition per month for each
child, $3.50.
Children of the educable age who do not
attend school, are numbered 1887, which
Mr.. Brown describes as "a crushing weight
and hindrance to the prosperity Of the State.
The number of children in private schools he |
estimates at $4,000, those in the public |
schools Is, 600; total, 1856, 900 out Of $50, OO0
He wakes eloquent over the benefits of |
as exhibited in Sparta, Jerusalem |
and Prussia, and deplores the fact that in |
Louisiana, out of . population Of ZIG, 9l5, |
there are 275. 742 who cannot read or write, Of
whom so, 749 are whites.
The Superintendent general statistics Of
public schools in the State give the following
totals I:
Number of children between six and twenty
one years Of age, $50, 1857, which is about
Of the total population /;
number attending public schools, 1900
number attending private schools, as per
tables, 22,3O6, las per estimate, page Is,
GO, OOO). Number of public school teachers
l494 number Of private school teachers, SAG.
The parish of Orleans is credited with
81, 272 children between six and twenty-one;
St Landry. 13,413 Caddo, S516; Natchi-
Eoches, 1858 !; Lsfourche, 1855 Rapides,
$500 Terrebonne, 1862 st. Mary. $3.50
East Baton Rouge, 5132 Claiborne, 5337.
The register of school officers throughout
he State gives the roll Of the grand army Of
Of school funds, numbering about
100 After the school funds of the State have
gone through SO many unclean aud itching
ingers, we can not wonder that the average pay
# the fifteen hundred teachers is only forty
dollars month, that the average term Of open
schools, per annum, is only four and half
months, or that scarcely one in four Of the ,
children Of the State goes to school at all.
The Garrick Club. |,
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