The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-08-29
Governors RepOrt on PubIlc Schools.


In his annual report tor 1906, Gov
ernor Kibbey states that the public
school system of the territory en-
braces primary, manual training and
grammar schools, high schools for the
principal centers of populations, two
normal schools and university
very considerable and commendable
educational outfit for so young a ter
ritory, and significant of the strong
Americanism which is inspiring the
people of Arizona to build for the
future.
The university is at Tucson. 1t has
an excellent faculty, which is under
the supervision of the board of re-
gents.
The normal schools are at Tempe
and Flagstaff, and, says the governor,
compare favorably with the best nor
NAL schools of the states.
The report gives the following
statistics:
Children of school age, 1906, 3O,23O;
gain over 1905, "a.
I@uLOllC0 III NlSlA III oOuOOlog 1OOO3
1929; gain over 1905, 1870.
School districts, 1906, 300; gain
over 1905, 3.
Schoolhouses constructed, 1906, u;
gain over 1905, u.
High schools, 1906, 6; gain over
1895, l.
Primary schools, 1906, 377; gain
over 1905, II.
Grammar schools, 1906, 165: gain
over 1905, 8.
Male teachers, 1906, ITO: gain over
1905, IS.
Female teachers, 1906, 444; gain
over 1905, 8.
Total number of teachers, 1906,
SOL; gain over 1905, u.
Teachers holding first grade, GER
tifcates, 1906, 379: gain over 1905, 0.
Teachers holding second grade GER
tifcates, 175; gain over 1905, 0.
Average monthly salary, male
teachers, 1906, sS9.4r; gain over
1906, 0.
Average monthly salary, female
teachers, 1906. s7l.1O: gain over
1905, 0.
Revenues of schools, 1906, $50, 1856;
gain over 1905, s47, 300.
School expenditures, 1906, 1851, 1856:
gain over 1905, s109,971.
The increase in school revenues
and in school expenditures show how
great value the people of Arizona
attach to American public school
education.
Arizona is frequently quoted as be-
ing too generous in the matter of
salaries, as compared with many of
the states. OF its school revenues
S7.S per cent. is devoted to salaries.
In that respect Arizona is only ex.
ceeded by Alabama, the percentage
Of which state is 1872. Georgia ranks
with Arizona. This territory pays its
female school teachers higher
salaries than does any other state or
territory in the union. The nearest
competitors are California with
S64.6O, and Nevada with S63.30. In
the monthly salaries tor male teach.
ers Arizona is only exceeded by
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, New Jersey and Neyada.
CALIFORNIA; male teachers salaries
average $50 monthly.
about the only trouble in Arizona
school matters is the Indifference OF
Mexican parents. 1t is extremely
difficult to secure the attendance OF
the Mexican children, and in his re-
port the governor lays stress on that
point.
According to the 1905 report OF
United States, Commissioner of Edu'
cation DR.. Elmer Ellsworth Brown
Arizona has 49S schoolhouses and the
estimated value of her school prop
erty is S9OO,20l. The average daily
attendance in that year was 14,009
or 64.29 per cent. of the enrolment
The aggregate number of days
schooling (all pupils combinedl in
19O4-5 school year was 1865 Who
can calculate the benefit, present
and future, derived from nearly two
million days of American teaching in
a single year? School was kept for
1854 days in the year.
Ninety per cent. of AriZona's total
school revenue is from local taxation
That speaks well as to the direct in.
terest of the people in their schools