The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-08-28
ON EDUCATION COMMITTEES
REPORT,

at the request of the committee
from the accounts of the Education
Office and which may be considered
supplementary to the published re-
port of the President OF the Board |
of Education. The committees re- |
commentators are for the most part |
in accord with those of the Educa-
ton Committee of the House aud as
regards the advisability of funding
the revenues of the Board in The
general treasury, they ro.iterate the
recommendation OF The eX-Minister
of Finance, Hon. $. Nj. Damon.
The total estimated receipts, as set
forth in the report are, as follows
School Tax Sl56, 900; Interest and
reaizotions, $50, sol; Appropriation
for support OF schools $3.50, 2O7,
Reformatory SchooT $4,000, for
for salaries of officers $4,000, for
incidentals 5000, for census S12,-
600, for building new school houses
S50, 900. balance on hand from last
period SIS, 937 8tal $5O6, l45.
The estimated expenditures, based
on those of last period, are: Salaries
of officers $40, 800, of 2S2 teachers
as per list returned to the House by
the President of the Board $685.
$50; increase in salaries including
that of Normal Instructor Sill 100;
Incldentals of the Board $4,000, of
schools S30,946; compensation to
school agents. tax collectors and re-
| gistry S2l $50: ordinary repairs to
all schools SIG, 800; new school
buildings 1000; Royal and Fort
Street schools $21, 1874 Reformatory
school S12 900, aid to Independent
schools S10,S20; census 1890 Sl2,-
| 600; difference of accounts closing
3lst December $40 800; total $500,
l45. OF this amount SIT, 500 is for
common native Hawaiian schools.
The committee approve of subsi-
dizing independent schools which,
they admit, cell gap and respond
to the wants of the parents" who
for various reasons do not consider
the public schools sufficient for all
educational purposes. Their APP
proval of continuance of these
grants is coupled, however, with Q
strong recommendation that the
moneys be apportioned on an eqult-
able basis which they think could be
done pro rata on the number OF
pupils in attendance. The commit
tee do not consider that the alot-
ments of cash to these schools have
hitherto been exactly fair. The
grants to sundry independent schools
from 1873 to 1890 show sum total
of $50, 1873. The rate per pupil to
each of the schools named, the COM
mittee figure out to be, as follows:
Iolani College SCI; Kawaiahac
Seminary $50 East Maui Seminary
sos; Rev, S. Davis school, Kona
Hawaii $34 Hilo Boarding Schoo
S24; st. Louis College 80.
Commenting on these figures The
committee say that ''if u fair pro
portion had been kept instead o
only Sl5. 800 awarded to il, st. Louis
College with its 1888 pupiIs) ough
to have received about So, 900 t.
be on even terms with the $1,000
, given to Iolani College (l9l pupils,
, and about 100000 to be in proper
ton with the Kawaiahao Seminary
with its 436 pupils" The conclu
sions arrived at by the committee OF
, the whole subject of Independent
schools converge to a point in tn
recommendation of an appropriation
of $4,000 in aid to the running eX
penses, repairs and improvements o
= St. Louis College and $4,000 TO
, female boarding schools. The pro
I posed grant to st. Louis College
meant TO include branches at llilo
Waikiki, Kohala and other dis
tricts.
The principal recommendation
q with which the committee close thei
: report, besides those above recited
are: that measures be taken t
. modify or suppress the Reformation
school - that proper legislation h
5 enacted for amending the laws tbs
e regulate the Board of Education, S
# as to remodel and reorganize TIL
c Bureau and bring it more under til
> control of the governments" "ths
- 100000 be appropriated for SUI
n port of English, Hawaiian and con
It mon schools"
O Mobiles G. n. Wilcox, Marsde
e and Andersen disapprove of the pr
posed appropriation of $4,000
" st. Louis College and $4,000
e female boarding schools, but comet
n in the other recommendation of Il
l. committee.
d That Independent schools, 81
y, called, should at least for the pr
y sent receive aid from the publ
!. treasury is pretty generally ADM
d ted, and the proposed basis of equ
d lization suggested by the committ'
IS of thirteen is probably as good
:, one as can be devised. At q
Il events,it bears strong recommen,
u alton on its face, and fair trial
the plan for two years won
either demonstrate its super
GRITTY or develop any abus
that might be supposed to gro
l. out of it. The only abuse tn
g seems possible is that the parties i
= terested might make false returns
IL the Board, but this is 4 contingent