Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1898 — California's Public Schools. [ARTICLE]

California's Public Schools.

Facts as to the development of the public school system es California show that aJthough it to only forty-seven years since the first schoolhouee veaa Jmllt In the Stats, yst now the annual expenditure for public schools Is nearly $6,000,000, and 0,500 teachers are employed in instructing 240,000 pupils. These teachers are ptsjd more liberally than in any other State, and they rank high in efficiency. The State TJalveraity and its affiliated colleges have been very liberally endowed, and the competition of Stanford Unlveralty has helped Instead of Injuring It The bequest 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 be under the State University, and every effort will he made to render It efflolent