The Penn's Grove record., 1912-12-13
MILLIONS FOR
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Commissioner of Education Re-
ports on Past Years Work
TOTAL OUTLAY is SCI, $40
Enrolment 49, ss Increase of Thirty
six Per cent.-Averase Cost of
Each Pupil Was $s1-Gain in
Days of Attendance.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
fredericksburg that $21,S4O,-
923.7S was the total outlay for public
school purposes for the school year
ending July l, 1912, DR.. Calvin N. Ken
dali, State Commissioner of Educa-
ton, submitted his annual report to
the State Board of Education, which
me- at the State House. Of this total
school cost, the sum of $14,547 ,833.47
was for the actual current expenses,
an increase in this item tover the pre-
ceding year of $1,834,924. SO, or IA
per cent. The total enrolment in the
public schools for the year was 49,
189, an increase over the preceding
year of 1921, or .36 per cent The
total days attendance was IS, 401, 010,
the increase over the preceding year
being 3,299,318. Commissioner Ken
dali shows that the average cost of
the schools per pupil, calculated on
enrolment, with the current expenses
as the basis, was $31.68, an increase
over the preceding year of $3.50.
Receipts mi Expenses.
The total receipts for all school pur-
poses were $26, 436, ,O9s.-- Of this the
State paid $S,958, 529.4S, the school
districts raised locally $11,S2O 1883,
and there was raised from other
sources, including the balance at the
beginning of the year of more than
$5,000,000,- the sum of 1856, 83O.17.
The current expenses were made up
as follows: Teachers salaries, S10,-
8 7,509.14; fuel and janitors' sala-
ries, s1,316,273.4S; textbooks and
other supplies, $500, 169. 92; transpor-
tation of pupils, 1922, 0833.32; tuition
of pupils in adjoining districts, $685.
1854; school Libraries, $35,51S.53,
and for miscellaneous purposes, ST.
~885,411.77. In addition to this the
amount spent for new school build
ings and repairing old ones was $4,-
9~16,562.15, and debt and interest
caused an expenditure of $1,508, OILS.
The report shows that 1,495 teach
ers receive not less than $500 a year.
DR.. Kendall insists that teachers sal
aries should be increased, and that
teachers must have greater prepara-
ton for their work. After showing
that the Legislature has provided for
special tra;ajng for seB-normal chill
dren, DR.. Kendall says it is believed
that New Jersey is the only American
Commonwealth that has made a de-
finite provision for the instruction of
this class of children. The Commits
sioner urges the elimination of super
fiuous details in teaching. He wants
all mumiied and antiquated parts of
courses of study abolished.
Because of the scarcity of men and
women, American born, who have the
ability to work in the skilled manu-
featuring processes, more young peo-
pie should be trained, according to DR..
Calvin N. Kendall, State Commission
er of Education, who submitted a re
port to the State Board of Education
On industrial training. DR.. Kendall
remarked that there are many reasons
for the necessity of industrial training
the tendency of people to go to the
cities, with the consequent loss of
rural population, and the reluctance
of a large number of boys and girls
upwards of IA years of age to con
tinue in school because the traditional
course of study is not related to the
more practical affairs of life.
1t is pointed out by DR.. Kendall that
these children leave school because
they see no use in a bookish course
of study. They are untitled to enter a
productive industry and they drift
from one chance job to another. In
dustrial training would keep many of
these boys and girls in school for a
longer period and they would be train
ed, not only for industrial efficiency
but for social efficiency. DR.. Kendall
claims that these schools must multi
ply in number if a sound and efficient
education is to be given the children
of the state. He says it is questiona-
BILE if any considerable number of
counties will feel they can afford to
establish such schools, and experience
has proven, DR.. Kendall points out,
that it would be well for the state to
provide one-half the cost for carrying
on Such a school.