The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-01

s947, cxpends annually for each child
enrolled in her public schools:
Richmond ............... S94I Sl5.oo
= ,nchh,,rp $50 1929
Nnrfoll, SIT 1403
Stnuiffion ..... G54 14.40
Richmond, with her larger wealth, eX-
pending s1.1O moro per pupil than Lynch
burg. but $l07 less than Norfolk and
100 less than Staunton!
In Richmond the increase In value OF
school property has been:
Increase.
1895 1905. P. c..
Richmond 80. S432,o5O $4,000 "a
Lynchburg -. $4,000 10000 26.S
Roanoke ...... 10000 100000 60
Norfolk ....... $4,000 100000 400
Richmond pays her white women
teachers at the rate of s46.14 per month
for a session of nine months.
Richmond 1885,. 1880. SAC IA
Stanton ........ ......... Al 81
Roanoke ..,..... ......'.. ~ ~
Lynchburg 1900. ....... hO IS
Norfolk ........ .......... 52 w
Richmond, with Ia, per .lcnpitn wealth
"A per cent greater than Staunton. pays
it's white women teachers on an average
only $4.30 more per month.
She pays the same salary as is paid IN
Roanoke: and with per capita wealth
G per cent. greater than Lynchburg, her
white women teachers receive an aver
age monthly salary OF s4,29 loss; and
with a per capita wealth Is 40 per cent.
greater than Norfolk, her white women
teachers receive, on an average, $4.29
less each month. @
Teachers Poorly,Paid.9
In n list of thirty eight cities OF $4,000
a. ~ In In, rnr()rt I'D nv the
Committee on Public School Teachers
Salaries Of the National Education Asso-
citation, Richmond shows the lowest avor-
age for teachers salaries, with but two
exceptions-lJric, Pa, and Wilmington,
Del.
rho average teachers salary in the
city High School is:
In Richmond ................ 5000
In Roanoke ................. '39
In Norfolk .i........]..,.'.... 800
This city is on record as paying the
lowest average salary for High School
teachers In the United States In cities OF
from 10000 to 100000 population.
Present Needs.
And now a word as to some of the
most pressing needs of our city system
of schools In order that our educational
facilities may keep pace with our ma
tcral resources, and Richmond hold her
proud place rs the leading city of tho
South. We need better buildings and
grounds, and more Of them Our present
school houses arc filled, and In some In
stances ovnrcrowded.
Tho school population of Richmond Is,
for white 12,912; colored. 71s6. or these
only CALI white, so per cent and 3,7o4
colorcd 81 per cent OF the whole num-
bcr, arc In actual Attendance upon our
public schools, This lost tribe of the
children of Israel must be found and
safely lodged In school buildings meeting
the needs and providing for tho training
of the citizenship of Nrgnlu's capital
city.
The number Of graduates In the normal
course In our white High School fell
from IS in 1S97-'9S to % In 100000. Is
lack of desire on the part Of our young
women to graduate ms normal students
and the insufficient pay we offer our
white women teachers.
our School Board, alert to tho cry OF
the children, has repeatedly urged upon
our Council the necessity and desirnblllty
Of adding TO the land already purchased
for .our new High School building the nd-
joining block extending from Eighth to
Ninth on Marshall Street and contain
ing the John Marshall house, This lot
should become n part of the property OF
the High School for the following rea-
| sons: il would add TO tho beauty of ono
| buildings, giving adequate space for Its
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