The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-09-27
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An Interesting Report showing the
Expenditure for Education
I'm This state.

Lansing, Sept. 23.-The forthcoming
annual report of superintendent
of Public Instruction Hammond gives
some very interesting figures relative 10
the cost of conducting the public school
system of Michigan last year. Asynop-
sis follows:
IL shows that the total resources. includ-
ing the amount on hand from the previous
year were 1885,, 646.95. while the total ex-
penditures were $685. 2i.5 80.
The receipts were as follows: Amount OF
one mill tax. $3.50, 1884, s; amount OF primary
school interest fund, $3.50 $50 70; amount re-
ceived from nonresident tuition, $50 53S, SO;
from district taxes, $452i, 9950S: from loans
s4O4276.6l; from all other sources 1891 SS4.75;
balance from previous year, $9lS, 1914.
The following shows the total expendi-
lures: Amount paid men teachers, 5000
62l.56; women teachers, SS077. 257Oi; for
buildings and repairs. $C2l ,194.S S. interest on
loans, Sis, 996 "a; amount paid on bonded
Indebtedness. $402 021. so; for all other pur-
poses, $l,SS7 1872. 30; balance carried to this
year, S1.1S4,622.45.
The total expenditures Of the graded
school districts were Isis, "a, and of the
ungraded districts, $l.76l 9l1.S6 The total
bonded Indebtedness of districts is 81, $685.
$50. 90, and the total floating Indebtedness,
$SO,9lS.55. The total Indebtedness Of graded
districts is ST. O92. and of the ungraded
districts. S212,9l61S. The total amount due
the districts at the close of the year was
1857 los 80.
The average monthly wages of men teach
ers in graded schools was $50 Sc, in ungraded
schools, $2S15. and in all schools $4S.05. The
average monthly wages of women teachers
In graded schools was 1926; in ungraded
schools, $2429 and in all schools, $S5.2S.
The number OF townships and indepen-
dent districts reporting was 1854; number
Of graded school districts. 672; number of
ungraded districts, 6,4S5; total, 7157.
The total school census Of the graded dis
tricts was i02,715 and of the ungraded dis
tricts 3O1, Ol5 a total of 7O3, $50. The total
enrolment was 2S7,274 in the graded dis
tricts; 20S,7 in the ungraded districts, and
496,025 in the state
The percentage of attendance was nearly
equal in the two classes of schools, being
71.3 per cent. in the graded and 693 per cent.
In the ungraded districts.
In the graded districts the average dura-
ton OF school was 9.24 months in the year,
and in the ungraded districts sol months,
or 500 months for the state.
total of al districts in the state fur
nished free text books, this being an in
crease of 2S over the previous year.
The number of private or select schools
that reported was 403 in which there were
400 men and 7S7 women teachers and 45,
465 pupils.
The number of teachers necessary to sup
ply the graded schools was 6255, of whom
543O were women. OF the 6,4Sj teachers in
the ungraded schools. 6,0lS were women.
The average number of months school
taught by men teachers during the year
was 6.S9, while the average for women
teachers was 722.
There are 6,059 frame schoolhouses I'm the
state, 1,41 brick, "A stone and PSI log, a
total of 1855. The whole number of sit
tings in these schoohouses is 6l4,043
The estimate value of school property in
the graded school districts is 49, 946.52l and
in the ungraded districts, $i,192 O65, an ag-
gregate of $1S.13S,5S9.
total Of 6409 districts report diction-
aries in the schools, 5,495 report globes,
6l9l report maps, and 6,3lS report United
States flags.
The total number Of towns and district
libraries reported was 1882, and the total
number Of volumes i'm such libraries S22-
40 The total amount paid for the support
Of these libraries was S99179.SO.
Seventy-two teachers Institutes were
held during the year. with an aggregate
enrolment Of 1902
The total amount Of primary school in
terest fund apportioned among the counties
was T,04S.854.50, the rate per capita for
children included in the school census be-
ing $3.50.