The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-22
Educational Statistics.

The commissioner Of education has
completed his fifth annual report. He
has in the present volume discarded all
special papers, and confined the con-
tents strictly to a review Of educational
work. The report proper covers 152
pages. The commissioner calls atten-
tion to the intimate relation existing
between educational work and COM
mercial prosperity, and points his
allusion by citing the depression affect
ing business disaster. He claims for
the work performed in his office. great
value to all economists and politicians
as well as to the teacher and publicist.
The commissioner states thatit is graf
flying to observe the increase Of the
determination of each state to take, an
annual census Of the school population.
There has been an increase Of $4,000
children during the year, and, thirty
five out of thirty-seven. states report
the number of teachers. Thirtyseven
states and eleven territories report the
public school income, which shows an
increase of 81, ,232, 900, but only thirty
five states and nine territories can show
their school expenditures. There are
enrolled in public schools {, 600, 900
pupils, and the average daily attend
ance is 100000. The estimated pop
ulation between six and sixteen years
Of age is 10, ,5O0,O 600. The total income
of public schools in the states and ter
! ritories in 1874 was $82, 600, 900. The
total expenditures for the states and
territories was$74, ,OO0, 900. The high
est salaries for school teachers reported
is accredited to the Cherokee Nation
1926 monthly for male and 500
monthly for female teachers. The
District of Columbia comes next--
$113. and $75. Massachusetts shows
a greater disproportion and $50.
| The expenditures in the year, pei
capita of average attendance in the
public schools, are as follows: Massa;
| chusetts, $40; Ohio, $14; Nebraska,
$18; Rhode Island, $18; Connecticut;
$19; Vermont, $l2; New York, $21
Iowa, $14; Michigan, $15; New Jer.
sey, $18; Indiana, $14; Illinois, $13
Maine, $40; Maryland, $40; Mime.
sofa, $13; Mississippi, So aiTennessee,
So; Virginia, IS = Florida, ,$8; Dis
trict Of Columbia, $26 Montana, $17;
Colorado, $22; Utah, S.; Cherokee
Nation, $24. 1 iHd3 eiaf749 II.
| Many states cannot tell the number
of their school population, and some
have not counted their sittings, and tic
/ not know whether they are adequatete Il
| their necessities. H. a.gs.i7 81. 4, II
| One thousand and thirty-one insti
tutions Of secondary instruction, with
4O8 more teachers, are reported fol
1874, as against 944 in 1873. There
1 were &c, ,391 students. The diminutior
! in attendance is attributed, iii a very
large degree, to the financial depression
Of last year. The effect Of business
depression is particularly noticeable il
the preparatory schools for the superior
| instruction Of women. During ths
/ year 563 degrees were conferred upor
women. There are. now, In college
and scientific schools 90 900, and in I'll,
I preparatory schools q, 900. One %
| the features Of the centennial .rep6r
viii be. the. publication aof . work d
libraries and museums III the Unite,
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