Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-01-15
RUSSELL SAGE DATA ON STATES SCHOOLS AND OTHERS


schools reservng consideration of the parts
dealing with secondary school and higher education for the
entire report except the statement of the boards recon-
mendatons, part of which appears this morning
Vermont has the distinction of being the first State
to experience survey of it's entire education system The
fact that the Carnegie survey emphasizes some of the de-
fects of schools that already had appre-
ated should accelerate zeal and strengthen deter
mnaon to put school system in the very best
possible condition to meet the needs and demands of our
commonwealth
When discussed the preliminary report of the sur
said that while knew of many of these defects
and had sought to their remedying had State
Superintendent of Education Mason s. Stone the common
schools that had given many grand and noble
women to contribute to State in the Union could not
be wholly bad While we need to realize defects it is
not wholesome helpful to gain the idea have permitted
our common schools to go wholly to the bowwows
While the Carnegie Foundation has been engaged in work
in direction the Division of Education of the Russell Sage
Foundation has been making comparative study of the pub
lie school system in ortyeight States and is illuminating
for note of the results of that comparison far
as the common schools of Vermont concerned.
The very first page of tabuation of States finds Yer
mont at the head of the entire list showing that the Green
Mountain State led the Union in the proporonate number
of her children in school, According to the figures given
Vermont in 1910 had 1924 children of school Of whom
66615 851 per cent in the public schools 5000
76 cent in private schools and 5679 only 73
per cent. not in any school.
Maine, which stands next to Vermont in proportonate
school enrolment had 14427s children in the public schools
1437 in private schools and 1885 not in any school, per-
centage of compared with Vermonts 73 Of the other
New England States Connecticut standing third in the
tire list had 221 children out Of school percentage of
SO out of school, Massachusetts had 9501 children out Of
schools or 31 cent New Hampshire, 1870 or 1873
cent; Rhode Island, 22,671 or 1879 per cent
Of the other States having children in school of any
character whatever Ohio had 139774 13 cent New
York, $685. or 1873 cent Illinois, 239032, II
cent, Pennsylvania 433, 643 % per California 1885,
$685. 25.7 per cent Oregon 259 per cent Kentucky 27
cent and while Louisiana has the doubtful credit
Of standing the foot of all the States with less than 240
TOO children out of school 447 per it's number of
children in the public schools aggregatng only little
than those out 263617 and 81 900 in private schools
In this connection the Russell Sage Foundation says:
THE fact that there children Of school not in
school does not necessarily that they have had
schooling However, it is evident that Vermont Maine and
Connecticut with than 80 per cent Of the children of
school actually in school making better investment
future citizenship than Alabama, Texas Nevada and
louisiana with from IS to As per cent of their children of
school age not receiving schooling
The Russell Sage Foundation also found that Vermont
getting 1865 per of it's total school from
State taxes compared with per cent New York
cent in New Hampshire 121 per cent in Connecticut, 81
per cent. in Rhode Island 35 in Maine and g in Massa
chusets The Russell Sage Foundation holds that all
school support should provide sufficient local taxation to
local pride and initiative well sufficient State
taxation to equaze educational advantages by aiding
communities with additional grants based upon special local
efforts to improve facilities.
The table showing the amount expended schools
each 500 of wealth in each State 1910 put Vermont we'll at
the top of the list with expenditure of 40 cents 500
compared with New Hampshire % cents Maine 32 cents,
Connecticut 81 certs Rhode Island 27 Massachusetts
81 cents Iowa rs cents Nebraska 20 cents Minnesota 80
cents Colorado 80 and on being
by Idaho 40 cents Utah 81 cents Oklahoma 70 cents and
with various States AS regards furnishing free
text books medical inspection, compulsory education and
sohoohouse construction Vermont also holds gratifying
rank.
AS regards teachers salaries of efficiency
Vermont stands dcouragngy low and this is where the
Carnegie and Russell Sage reports parallel The report
under consideration that throughout the southern
States thousands of rural teachers less than $50
while in New England State Hundreds of teachers
less than Sc per week.
1t is worthy of note in this connection that the Russell
Sage Foundation gives Vermont twelfth position general
school rank among the AZ States the different ranks of
State under different heads being follows Children in
school, LIST rank; school plants 18TH child 18th
school days per child 5h school year 22nd attendance 9th
expenditure in proportion to wealth 9TH daily cost Oath
high schools 18th; teachers salaries 43rd.
This report shows at glance where are strong and
where weak and with the results of the two educa-
hefOr he