Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-21
COST OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Differences in Expenditures for Educa
tional Purposes in Various Cities.

Differences in Expenditures for Educa-
tional Purposes in Various Cities.
Exclusive of $1,1S0,000 which it pays
to the state, the city of New York is
expanding this year $600O,000 for pur-
poses Of education, and about 81, 500,000
of this sum goes for salaries of teachers
and school employees There are about
5000 school teachers in the city of New
York and the rate of pay varies from
$4,000 a year salary paid to the larger
number of principals Of the male gram
mar schools down to $5O4 a year, the
amount paid to teachers of the lowest
grade in the primary schools. Roughly
speaking. the average rate of pay of
school teacher in New York is about
1913 a year, and it is estimated that the
cost per capita of the education of chill
dren in New York is about $25.
By a recent inquiry into the cost of
tuition in public schools in American
cities it has been found that only st.
Louis and Philadelphia paid more than
NeT York set the ne m NJ cost per capt.
minimum 1920 in Rochester. The diff
ferences are largely in the matter of sal
aries. In Philadelphia principals re-
ceive from $4,000 to $4,000 a year, pro-
fessors in the boys school $4,000, teach
ers in the boys school from $500 to $500,
$500 to $1,000. In st. Louis the maxi
mum for principals is $1,000, for assist
ants $500 to $4,000, according to grade.
At the other extreme are Indianapolis
and Minneapolis, where high school
teachers receive $1,000 as the maximum.
from 5000 to $500. Philadelphia ex
ponds $3,50O,0OO a year on ner schools.
Chicago's schools cost $5,0OO,00O the
schools OF. Boston $500, 900, the schools
of Brooklyn $3.5O0,0O0, the schools of
Baltimore S1.200.0OO. the schools of
Washington $1.OOO.0OO. the schools of
Buffalo $95O.OOO, the schools Of Milwau-
kee, 100000, and the schools Of Louis
vile $4,000. Among American cities
which expend comparatively little in pro-
portion to their size for school purposes.
New Orleans is perhaps the most con-
spicuous. and one probable explanation of
the small expenditure Of public money
there is to be found in the fact that a
considerable portion Of the population is
colored and the item of expense for the
documentary instruction Of colored chill
dren is, it is well known, very small
There are in the United States 492 col
leges or universities having 1000 male
and 1900 female instructors. There are
$50 theological schools with 1000 instruc-
law schools with 5000 students, of whom
100 are girls. There are 200 medical
colleges with $4,000 students. of whom
1900 are female. Of these medical schools
moro than half are allopathic and only %
are homeopathic. There are in the Unit
ed States 5000 high schools with TOGO
male and 5000 female teachers, and $500
private schools with 1000 male and 5000
female teachers. About 10 per cent
of the number of private schools in the
United States are to be found in the
city of New York. There are more
medical colleges and law schools in this
state than in any other, but Pennsyl-
vania has a larger number of theological
colleges than New York. In respect of
the number of high schools Ohio stands
first among the states of the Union and
in the number of so-calleG colleges and uni
versities Virginia stands frst.-New
York Sun