Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

There are 16,738,362 children and young men and women being educated in the schools and colleges of the United States—l,so3,92l in private institutions, the remainder in public schools, as follows: Public Piivate schools. schools. Elementary 14,(162,488 1,113,822 High schools and academies (>8.519 JC6,t:7B Universities and colleges 30,030 73,201 Professional schools .... 8.540 46.591 Normal schools 41,808 23,572 There are 244,527 school houses, dormitories and other buildings in the United States devoted to education, and they are valued at $524,689,255. There are 415,660 teachers —131,703 men and 283,867 women. In 1899 the people of the United States spent $197,281,603 to educate their children, which is $2.67 per capita of population and $3.20 per capita of children of the school age. The average salaries paid school teachers in the entire United States in 1899 was $45.25 a month for men and $38.14 a month for women. In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Nevada schoolmasters come high. The average paid to men teachers in Massachusetts in 1899 was $136.23 a month; in Rhode Island, $103.74; in Nevada, slOl n month. Schoolma’ams do not fare so well in those States, their pay in Massachusetts averaging $51.41. in Rhode Island ssl and in Nevada $61.50. The highest wages to women teachers are paid in California and the District of Columbia, an average of $64 a month. In Illinois tho average for men was st‘>o.42 and women $53.27; in Indiana, S4B for men nnd $43 for women; in Michigan, $44 for men an<l $35 for women, and in Wisconsin, s4l and $29. Wisconsin pays her schoottna’atns less than any other of the Stated.