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Inters stiag Figures Furnish
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for the Educational AS
sociation Convention.
PLACES FOp 800 MORE
Re ative Cost Of Living and
Remuneration Pension
Question AS Yet n
an Embryo State

Especial 70 .sThe Jersey CITY News,
AsBURY PARK. June IL. 1905
Two Of thee prominent features Of III
National Educational Association Con-
vetitien which takes place here on June
81, will be the address on July Of Pres
ident Roosevelt and the presentation and
discussion before the Council Of Esuca-
tion of three EXTENSIVE reports Of com
mittees Of investigation.
One Of these is a report of a commit
Il appointed in July, 1903, to inquire into
and report upon the salaries, tenure Of
office aid pensions of public school teach
ers in the United States. This commit
tee engaged the services Of an expert
statistician, aud has prepared yolimn-
Gus report, which fills a book of 45S
pages and includes extensive and labor
iously prepared schedules dealing with
actual salaries paid in all cities and
towns of 5000 population or over; fixed
salaGy schedules in cities and towns of
5000 population or over, wherever such
schedules have been adopted, these scEeSlA
ules being given in compati-on with ac.
tual Salaries as shown by the pay rails;
salaries in typical towns Of less than
5000 population: salaries in typical un-
graded sehels; the name ef the fund or
appropriation from which teachers sal
aries are paid-that is, whether a special
salary fund not subject to diminut.on
from the fluctuations of other expendt-
lures or drawn from a general e1uca-
tional fund; earnings in aching ard
other occupations: the purchasing power
Of salaries; tenure Of office Of teachers
and pensions of teachers.
The cities or towns Of 5000 population
or over in the United States, according
to the census Of 900. number 547. and
include population of nearly 00,000,
| or. 333.1 per cent. of the population of
the country. The number of families
living upon farms was by the same cen
sis 5.69s. .901. or 35.2 per cent. of all the
families IN the United States. The per-
centage of families living on farms in
New Jersey was S.5. A table accom-
| panying the report shows that the per-
centage Of families living on farms varies
widely Massachusetts having only 80.
while Oklahoma has T2.6 per cent.
Ia sort Of preface to the tables
showing the average salaries paid to
teachers. the report sets forth that only
partial reports in regard to the subject
could be obtained from Orange. among
a number Of other municipalities, and no
reports whatever from Hackensaek and
AIillville.
In the sixteen cities of the country
having population Of between 100000
and 100000 il was found that the aver
age salary of principles Of high schools
was 81 GS5. while that of the teachers
was only 81 .23O In the fifty-seven cities
between i5.G0D and 10000 population
having principals Of high schools and re-
porting the salary, the average salary
was Sd AGA. while that Of the teacher
| was but ssoss
IN presenting. these figures the. report
sets forth:
1T win thus be seen that to present
the average Of the two classes as repre-
sent.ng teachers dnclnding principals IN
high schools would be to represent both
classes unfairly IN Pittsbllrg. for exam
pie. there is hut one principal to sisxty-
four teashers. while in Milwaukee sixty
one teachers. are supervised bs four prin
| cipals,
| The average salary Of high school
teachers hot including prineipals) was
| 81 ,os6. the average for the women sepa-
rattly being saos, and the men separate
| Ii 81 1903
This large difference between the av-
erage FOR women and men Is due 10 4
considerable extent to the fact thai such
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