Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-11-25
COST OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Differences In Expenditures For Educa-
tional Purposes In Various Cities.

Differences In Expenditures For Educa-
tional Purposes In Various Cities.
There are about 5000 school
teachers in the city of New York,
and the rate of pay varies from 49,
600 year salary paid to the larger
number of principals of the male
grammar schools down to s5O4 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 s675
year.
By a recent inquiry into the cost
of tuition in public schools in Amer
ican cities it has been found that
only st, Louis and Philadelphia paid
more than New York, the maxi
mum cost per capita being s64O9 in
Philadelphia and the minimum
$32.7 in Rochester. The differences
are largely in the matter of sal.
aries. In Philadelphia principals
receive from SO, 600 to $4,000 a year,
professors in the boys school s2,-
500, teachers in the boys school
from $500 to 81, 500 and teachers in
the girls school from $500 to 81, GOO.
In st. Louis the maximum for prin-
cipals is $4,000, for assistant princi-
pals So, 200 and for assistants $1,000
to $4,000, according to grade. AT
the other extreme are Indianapolis
and Minneapolis, where high school
teachers receive 81, 200 as the maxi
mum, and Pittsburg, where the sal.
aries range from 5000 to $1,000.
Philadelphia expends SO, 500, 600 q
year on her schools. Chicago's s
schools cost $4,000, 900, the schools
of Boston S3,S00,0O0 the schools of
Brooklyn SO, 500, 900, the schools OF
Baltimore 81, 200, 900, the schools OF
San Francisco 81, $50, 600, the schools
of Washington $1,000 the
schools of Buffalo s95o,Oo0, the
schools of Milwaukee 500, 600 and
the schools of Louisville S575, 600
Among American cities which spend
comparatively little in proportion
to their size for school purposes
New Orleans is perhaps the most
conspicuous, and one probable eX
planation of the small expenditure
of public money there is to be fount
in the fact that considerable por
ton of the population is colored
and the item of expense for the
rudimentary instruction of colorei
children is, it is well known, very
small.
There are in the United States 10:
colleges or universities having 7,00t
male and 1,500 female instructors
There are $50 theological school!
with 1000 instructors and 1000 stu
dents. There are 100 law schools
with 5000 students, of whom 1Ot
are girls. There are 200 medica
colleges, with $4,000 students, O
whom 800 are female. OF thes,
medical schools, more than half ar,
allopathic and only 25 are homeo
pathic. There are in the Unitet
States 5000 high schools, with 700,
male and 5000 female teachers, ant
2,5oO private schools, with 400
male and 5000 female teachers
About 10 per cent Of the number o
private schools in the United State
are to be found in the city of Nev
York. There are mere medical col
leges and law schools in this stat
than in any other, but Pennsylvania
has larger number of theological
colleges than New York. Inrespec
of the number of high schools Obi
stands first among the states of til
Union, and in the number of SO call
ed colleges and universities Virgins
stands first.-New York Sun.