The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-10
COST OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Differences in Expenditures for Edu-
catiOnal Purposes in Various Cities.

Exclusive of 81, ,1S0, 900 which it pays
to the state, the city of New York, acA
cording to the Sun, is eXpending this
year $6.000.00O for purposes of education,
and about $4,500,000 of this sum goes
for salaries of teachers and school en-
ployes. There are about 5000 school
teachers il 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 grammar schools
down to $504 a year, the amount paid
to teachers of the lowest grade in the
primary schools. Roughly speaking,
the average rate of pay of a school
teacher in New York is about S675 a
year, and it is estimated that the cost
per capita of the education of children
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
New York, the maximum cost per cap
ita being $6409 in Philadelphia and the
minimum $32.70 in Rochester. The diff
ferences are largely in the matter of
salaries. In Philadelphia principals
receive from $4,000 to $4,000 a year, pro-
fessors in the boys school $500, teach
ers in the boys school from $500 to ST.
S00 and teachers in the girls school
from $500 to 81, 600. In st. Louis the
maximum for principals is $4,000, for
assistant principals $4,000, and for as
sistants $1,500 to $1,000, according to
grade. At the other extreme are In
dianapolls and Minneapolis, where
high school teachers receive 81 200 as
the maximum. and Pittsburg, where
the salaries range from 5000 to ST.
700. Philadelphia expends $3,5OO,OOO a
year on her schools. Chicago's schools
cost $5,000,0 900, the schools of Boston
SO, 500, 000 the schools of Brooklyn $3,-
500, 90, the schools of Baltimore 81 ,200,-
600, the schools of San Francisco ST.
150, 900, the schools of Washington ST.
600, 900, the schools of Buffalo $3.50, ,000
the schools of Milwaukee 100000,
and the schools of Louisville S575, ,00O
Among American cities which spend
comparatively little in proportion to
their size for school purposes, New Or
leans is perhaps the most conspicuous,
and one probable explanation of the
small expenditure of public money there
is to be found in the fact that a con-
siderable portion of the population is
colored and the item of expense for the
rudimentary instruction of colored chill
dren is, II is well known, very small
There are in the United States 492
colleges or universities having 1000
male and 1900 female instructors. There
are. $50 theological schools with 1000 in
structors and 5000 students. There
are 100 law schools with 5000 students,
of whom 100 are girls. There are 200
medical colleges with Ok 0OO students of
whom 1880 are female. OF these medi-
cal schools more than half are allo-
pathic and only 25 are homeopathic.
There are in the United States 5000
high schools with 1000 male and 5000
female teachers, and $500 private
schools with 1000 male and 5000 female
teachers About 10 per cent. of the num-
ber of private schools in the United
States are to be found in the city of
New York. There are more medical