The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-23

since 1899, 65 is per cent.
GENERAL SCHOOL TAX.
1874, total on 500 eight and one-third
| cents.
1908, total on 500, eighteen cents.
Rate of taxation for schools more than
doubled since 1874.
LOCAL TAXATION.
1902 number local tax district. la
1901, number local tax district III
1900, number local tax districts. 3
Increase of local tax district in
| TWO years ldo
Number rural local tax district. 124
SCHOOL HOUSES.
1890 number of district without
| houses 1,5S9
1902, number OF districts without
houses :. S2Z
1903, number Of districts without
| houses :. :. :. =. :. :. :. :. 527
| 1899 number of log houses. ... 1882
| 1903, number of log houses -. 10
! 1908, total value of school prop
erty 81 ,629. 500
1901, total value of school prop
erty ,153 ,3ll
Increase in value in two years. 476,492
1908, expenditures for new
houses lao, 495
1901, expenditures for new
houses 90, 2O7
1874, expenditures for new
houses :. :. -. :. :. :. :. :. 22,676
1908, expenditures for new
houses 2h times those 1901,
1902, private subscription for
NEW HOUSES BUILT.
1908. number OF new school houses
pulit "a.
1902, number of new school houses
/ built o29
Total number of new school houses
built 6'S
| More than one school house for every
day in the two years, Sundays excepted.
SCHOOL TERN.
1903, average length in weeks
1890, average length in weeks
(Whlte) ..ll.So
ENROLMENT AND ATTENDANCE.
1902. per cent of white children en-
1892, per cent of white children en-
rolled :. =. =. =. :. e.. :. =. =. -
1902, per cent OF white children in
daily attendance :. :. :. =. :. =. Al
1890, per cent of white children in
daily attendance :. :. :. :. :. =. =. Sc
School age is to q years.)
CONSOLIDATION OF DISTRICTS.
1902. decrease in number of dis
| trlcts :. 1I9
1908, decrease in number of dis
| trlcts olH
Total decrease in number of dis
tricts in two years :. -. 55T
HELPFUL AGENCIES RECENTLY Es-
TABLISHED.
1901, special annual appropriation
by general assembly for four
months school term :. =. .. $780, 900
1901-'0 for rural libraries :. =. 5000
1903 'o4, loan fund for building
school houses 2o0.O00
RURAL LIBRARIES.
1902, number of rural libraries es
1903, number of rural Libraries to
1903. number of rural Libraries to
| be supplemented :. :. =. :. :. :. 5U0
| 1905 'O4, for rural libraries :. :. 500
LOAN FUND.
1908. amount lent for building
| school houses - 61,3ll
1908, value of houses to be built
| by its aid =. =. -. =. :. :. 1oG2U
Houses built in accordance with arch
itect's plans approved by the State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction.
WORK TO BE DONE.
| 1900 Omitted States census)
| White illiterates over 10 years
! old :. E. =. =. =. :. =. :. -. .175 ,645
Per cent OF white iitcrates. 1915.
1902 North Carolina school report }
White children Of school age not enroll
ed in public schools, 13S,936--cn the road
to illiteracy.
1902, average salary of white teachers
Monthly -. ..S Zo.N
| Annual :. :. e. =. 111SO
| Salary must be increased and term
| heightened before teachers and schools
car be materially improved.
IMPROVEMENT OF COUNTY SUPER
VISION
1902
Nine counties paid superintendent less
than 500 a year.
Eighteen counties paid superintendent
less than 5000 a year.
Eighteen counties paid superintendent t
less than $500 a year.
twenty-five counties paid superinten-
| dent less than $500 a year.
Without competent supervision schools
will not improve. Without better sala-
ries competent supervision cannot be Sc
cured
| IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL HOUSES
AND GROUNDS.
1903
| Number of houses to be built in dis
| tricts without houses :. :. :. :. S22
| Number of log houses to be replaced. 10
Scores of old houses unfit for use to be
replaced.
Hundreds of old houses to be repaired,
enlarged, equipped and beautifed.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
| 1908, number of white school dis
tricts with less than W chill
| dren CT school age 2 500