Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-01-14
COST OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Differences In Expenditures for Edueas
tIonal Purposes.

) tional Purposes.
Exclusive Of 81, 10000 which it pays
to the state, the city Of New York ID
expending this year s6,000,000 for pur-
poses Of education, and about $4,6O0,-
600 Of this sum goes for salaries OF
teachers and school employees. There
are about 5000 school teachers in tho
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 year., the amount paid to teach
ers Of the lowest grade In the pri-
mary schools. Roughly speaking, ths
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 a 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 tho
minimum $32.70 in Rochester. The
differences are largely in the matter
OF salaries. In Philadelphia prinei-
pals receive from $4,000 to $4,000 a
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 $1,50O to $1,000.
according to the grade. At the other
extreme are indianapolis and Mime
arolis. where high school teachers re-
ceive $1,000 as the maximum. and
Pittsburg, where the salaries range
from 5000 to $1,70o. Philadelphia ex-
pends $3,500,0OO year on her schools.
Chicago's schools cost 45,0O0,0O0, the
schools Of Boston 42,&O,000. the
schools Of Brooklyn $3,5o0,000, the
schools Of Baltimore $1,200,000, the
schools of San Francisco $1,150, 900. the
schools of Washington $1,O00;00O. the
schools of Buffalo $950,0O0, the schools
Of Milwaukee 100000, and the schools
Of Louisville $575,000. Among Amer
ican cities which spend comparatively
ittle in proportion to their size for
school purpt ses, New Orleans Is per.
haps the most conspicuous, and one
proba BILE 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 tho
rudin eltary 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 $50 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 25.000
students, of whom 500 are female.
OF thege medical schools more than
half are allopathic and only Is arc
homeopathic. There are in the Unit
ed States 5000 high schools, with T.
CVV u'dle dHd o,VVV leudle tcdCueTos
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 9TH
er, but Pennsylvania has larger num-
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-
Der Of so-called colleges and universi-
ties Virginia stands first.-New York
Sun.