The Van Buren press., 1897-08-28
COST OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Expenditures for Educational Pur-
poses in various Cities.

poses in Various Cities.
Exclusive of 81 100000 which it paws
to the state, the city of New York is ex-
pending this year $6,0Oo000 for pur-
poses of education, and about $4,500,00O
of this sum goes for salaries of teach
ers 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 grammar schools down TO 1904 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 $675 year, and it is estimated
that the cost per capita of the children
in New York is about $25.
By 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 minimum cost per capita
being $4,000 in Philadelphia and the
minimum $32 10 in Rochester. The diff
ferences are largely in the matter Of
salaries. In Philadelphia principals re-
ceive from $4,000 to $4,000 year, pro-
fessors in the boys school $500, teach
ers in the boys school from $500 to ST.
500 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
assistants $500 to $4,000, accord
ing to grade. At the other extreme are
indianapolis and Minneapolis, where
high school teachers receive $1,000 as
the maximum, and Pittsburgh, where
the salaries range from 5000 to 81, 700
Philadelphia expends $3,500,000 year
on her schools, Chicago's schools cost
$4,000, 900, the schools of Boston $780,
600, the schools of Brooklyn $3,500,00O,
the schools of Baltimore $l,200,00O, the
schools of San Francisco 81, $50, 900, the
schools of Washington $l,000,000, the
schools of Buffalo S950,00O, the schools
of Milwaukee 100000 and the schools
of Louisville $575,000 Among Ameri-
can cities which spend comparatively
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school purposes New Orleans is perhaps
the most conspicuous, and one prob
able explanation of the small eXpendi-
ture of public money there is to be
found in the fact that a considerable
proportion of the population is colored
and the item of expense for the rudi-
mentary instruction of colored children
is, it 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 instructors and 1900 students.
There are 100 law schools, with 5000
students, of whom 100 are girls. There
are 200 medical colleges, with $4,000
students, of whom ] 500 are female. OF
these medical schools more than half
are allopathic and only 25 are homeo-
pathic. 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 fe-
male 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 Pennsylvania
has larger number of theological col
leges than New York. In respect of the
humber of high schools Ohio stands
first among the states of the union, and
in the number of so-called colleges and
universities Virginia stands frst.--N.
Y. Sun.