Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — California’s Public Schools. [ARTICLE]

California’s Public Schools.

Facta as to the development of the E>llc school system of California show t although It is only forty-seven years since the first schoolhouse w*a built In the State, yet now the annual expenditure for public schools is nearly $6,000,000, and 6,500. teachers are employed In Instructing 240,000 pupils. These teachers are psjd more liberally than tn any other State, and they rank high in efficiency. The State University and Its affiliated colleges have been very liberally endowed, and the competition of Stanford University has helped instead of Injuring it The bequeet of J. 0. Wilmerding of $400,000 for the establishment of a school in which boys may learn trades has fallen duq and this new technical school will b« under the State University, and ever? effort will be made to render it efficient