Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-10-15
COST OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Differences in Expenditures for Educa'
tiOnal Purposes.


tional Purposes.
Exclusive of 81, 100000 which it pays
to the state, the city of New York is
expending this year $6,000,0OO for pur-
poses Of education, and about $4,500,-
600 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 year salary paid
to the larger number of principals of
the male grammar schools down to
$5O4 a year, the amount paid to teach
ers of the lowest grade in the pri-
mary schools. Roughly speaking, the
average rate Of pay Of school teach
er in New York is about $675 year.
and it is estimated that the cost per
capita of the education Of children in
New York is about $25. BY recent
inquiry into the cost of tuition in pub
lie schools in American cities it has
been found that only St. Louis and
Philadelphia paid more than New
York, the maximum cost per capita be-
ing $64.99 in Philadelphia and the
minimum $3270 in Rochester. The
differences are largely in the matter
Of salaries. In Philadelphia princi-
pals receive from $4,000 to $4,000
year, professors in the boys school
$4,000, teachers in the boys school
from $500 to $1,000 and teachers in the
girls school from $500 to $1,000. In
st. Louis the maximum for principals
Is $4,000, for assistant principals ST.
200, ard for assistants $500 to $4,000,
according to the grade. At the other
extreme are indianapolis and Mime
apolis. where high school teachers re-
ceive $1,000 as the maximum, and
Pittsburg, where the salaries range
from 5000 to S1,700. Philadelphia ex-
pends $3,5OO,00O a year on her schools.
Chicago's schools cost s5,00O,OO0, the
schools of Boston f3,S0,000, the
schools of Brooklyn $3,500,0OO, the
schools OF Baltimore $1,2O0OOO the
schools of San Francisco 81 10000, the
schools of Washington $1,0O0,O00, the
schools Of Buffalo $95O,0OO, the schools
Of Milwaukee 100000, and the schools
Of Louisville $575,O00. Among Amer
lean cities which spend comparatively
little in proportion to their size for
school purposes, New Orleans is per-
haps the most conspicuous, and one
probable explanation Of the small eX-
penditure Of public money there is to
be found in the fact that a consider
able portion of the population is col
ored and the item of expense for the
rudim ei.tary instruction of colored
children is, it is we'll known, very
small.
There are in the United States 492
colleges or universities having 1000
male and 1,500 female instructors.
There are LEO theological schools With
1,00G instructors and 5000 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
homeopathic. There are in the Unit.
ed States 5000 high schools, with T.
600 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 thanin any 9TH
er, but Pennsylvania has larger mum.
Der 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 num-
ber of so-called colleges and universi-
ties Virginia stands first New York
Sun.