Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10
The Nations School Facilities.


ing included) $50 233, AS. The school pop
ulation for IS States and 0 Territories ag-
gregates IA, 227, 74S The annual expense
per capita for public school pupils ranges
from 81 80 in North Carolina to S35 76 in the
Cherokee tribes, Indian Territory The
number of normal schools reported is 152,
having l, 19S instructors, 81, ,OS2 pupils, and
2, 763 graduates, of which number 1874 are
engaged in teaching. Ohio reports the great
est number of normal schools, IA. The larg-
est appropriation to a normal school was that
of S95, 900 made to the New York City
Normal College by the city. The bequests
made TO educational institutions for the year
equaled So, 900, 900, of which sum institu-
tutions for the superior instruction of wo-
men received S163, $40. The average of
salaries paid to public school teachers ranges
from S23 month for teachers of both sexes
in Alabama up to S113 for men and sS5 for
women in Nevada.
In Maine the commissioner reports a con-
siderable decrease of youth Of school age
but an increased average attendance in the
schools, and an increase in the number and
improvement in the quality Of the teachers
In New Hampshire, according to the re-
turns from the selectmen, the youth between
five and fifteen appear to be IL, 159 less
than at the last report, while there
were /, 1886 more enrolled in public schools,
246 more in private schools, and 266 fewer
attended no school. Male teachers were
more numerous, and the proportion of teach
ers trained in normal schools was greater
while the number of schools increased by64.
Fewer school-houses were reported unfit for
use, and the number supplied with black
boards was ten greater In other respects
there was decline smaller average attend
ance i'll the schools, smaller number in the
higher branches, "a fewer graded schools,
slight decrease in the average term Of schools,
diminution of teachers wages, and falling
off in receipts and expenditures
In Vermont, says the report, with 152
fewer youth of school age g 20) we find sos
more in public schools, an increase of :, ,O2S
in the the total enrolment and of 5,S44 in
average daily Attendance most creditable
record. With &c more public schools, the
average school term was increased by one
day and tenth, and Il larger proportion OF
male teachers was employed in the schools;
there were also greater receipts for the sup
port of the school system-an unusual thing
in these hard times With the exception of
the number of children of school age, the
only fallng-off was in the number of female
teachers largely made up by the increase
of males), in the wages paid teachers, and in
the general expenditures on the schools
Notwithstanding decrease of 4, 459 in the
number of her youth of school age, Massa-
| chusetts enrolled 2,0j6 more in public day
schools and had 3,s01 more in average at
tendance than in 1896; with IA more or
dinary day schools and four more public
high schools The unincorporated private
schools increased by "A. and the estimated
average attendance on them by 715; but
the incorporated academies seem to have lost
| in number of schools as the others gained,
and to have had upon their rolls ,S31 fewer
pupils; the tuition fees of both classes OF
these private schools fell of very consider
ably
| In Rhode Island the public schools enroll
ed G31 more pupils and had 541 more in
average attendance. There were also 12
more school buildings, 81 more public day
schools go of them graded, "a more teach
ers in the DAY schools and 81 more in the
evening schools, with only slight falling-of
in wages, and, what is unusual IN these
times, an increase in the expenditure on the
schools notwithstanding small decrease in
| the income.
| Connecticut had 1910 more youth of
school age, 102 more of them enrolled in
public day schools and 1854 more in other
schools, more public school, more graded
schools, 80 more school houses in good con-
dition, 20 more teachers in Winter and 21
more in Summer, with 124 more continued
in the same school; the only diminutions
were in teachers wages and in the receipts
and expenditures for public schools.
In average of scholars to the school popu-
lation in the different States, New England
outranks the rest of the Union, while the
country south of the Potomac river is at the
bottom of the scale The lowest percentage
of attendance Of school children to popula-
tion is in Louisiana, where it is only
20 per cent The highest is in Massachu-
setts. which sends "a per cent of her
children to school The attendance
throughout the Union in Il graduated rising
scale is as follows Arizona and Louisiana,
20: Florida. ~ Virginia, 81; Missouri, IS;
North Carolina, %; Maryland, 81 Alabama,
2S; Georgia 90; Mississippi, 30 Kentucky,
81 Tennessee. 30 New Jersey, "a; New
York. 81: Colorado. IS West Virginia, 80;
Illinois. ~: Indiana. 43; Iowa, Ohio and
Utah, A; California, Michigan and Nebras-
ka, 45 Vermont. 46 Maryla and Penn
sylvania, IS Kansas, 81; District of Col
umbia, So Connecticut and Rhode Island,
81 Oregon, 60: New Hampshire, 65 and
Massachusetts,, a.
The table which shows the average monthly
pay of school teachers indicates very great
difference both between the States and be-
tween the sexes Tie determinations as to
the sexes generally are not complimentary
to those portions of the Union which North
crn men at least are wont to call the most
civilized The range of pay is from see
month for Il female teacher in Vermont and
Utah To Sll3 to Il male teacher in Nevada.
The rates paid in New England are AS fol
lows
Male. Female.