Lanterna Rally

Author: North Carolina Dept; Of Pub Instruction

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9781332919093

Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina for the Scholastic Years 1912-1913 and 1913-1914 Eleven and one-half days have been added to the average annual school term of White schools of the State, and days to the average annual school term of the colored schools of the State, days to the white rural school term and days to colored rural school term. In newly established local tax districts of course, the school term has been greatly lengthened and in many instances doubled. There has 'been an increase of in the number of white teachers employed, and 275 in the number of col ored teachers employed. There has been an increase in the average ah nual salary of white teachers of and in the average annual salary of colored teachers. The average annual salary of rural school teachers has been increased There has been a necessary increase in the expense of collecting, expending and administering a larger fund, and an increase in the current expenses for longer terms with more schoolrooms and teachers. The total expenditures for all schools during 1914 was which represents an increase of over 1912, an increase of in rural expenditures, and in city expenditures. Of this increase rural teachers and superintendents received and urban teachers and superintendents received The increased expenditures for administration, including treasurers' commissions, the expenses of boards of education, school committeemen, and taking census, was for rural schools and a decrease of for city schools. The increase in the expenditures for all other purposes, including overcharges arising from overestimates of poll tax, errors in treasurer's commissions, etc., borrowed money for building repaid, etc.; repaid out of collected taxes was The expenditures for public high schools showed a reasonable increase. In this report the expenditures for high schools have been included with the other rural school expenditures and will not be found listed separately as heretofore. A detailed report of the high school expenditures will be found elsewhere in the report of the State Inspctor of Public High Schools. An increase in the amounts spent for buildings and supplies is shown in 1914 over 1912 of Taking collectively the gain in the expenditures under each head, there was a net increase in the expenditures for the State for public schools of for 1914 over 1912. This shows a gain in the expenditures for schools of about 30 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.