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NEW YORK (STATE). 



The following is the salary account of the 



State: 



SALARIES PAID WHOLLY BY STATE AT MONTHLY AND 

 ANNUAL RATES. 



Education. The report of the Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction covers the school year 

 ending Aug. 20, 1886. The aggregate amount 

 of public moneys expended for the purposes 

 of education, under the general supervision of 

 the department, was $13,986,834.08. The sum 

 paid directly for common schools was $13,- 

 284,986.64, of which sum $7,878,597.30 was 

 expended in the cities, and $5,406,389.34 in 

 the towns. The aggregate valuation of school- 

 houses and sites was $35,662,085 ; of this val- 

 uation $23,508,511 was located in the cities, 

 and $12,153,573 in the towns. The average 

 value of school-houses and sites in the cities 

 was $47,878.63, and in the towns $1,052.80. 

 There was paid for teachers' wages, $9,102,- 

 268.77; for libraries, $40,509.25; for appara- 

 tus, $310,162.85; for new buildings, sites, re- 

 pairs, etc., $2,276,455.38. The total number 

 of volumes in district libraries is 734,506. The 

 number of school districts in the State, ex- 

 clusive of cities, is 11,262. The number of 

 teachers employed at any time during the year 

 was 31,325, and the number employed for terms 

 of 28 weeks or more was 22,240. Of the whole 

 number of teachers employed, 5,952 were males 

 and 25,373 were females. The average annual 

 salary of teachers was $701.31 in the cities, 

 and $261.66 in the towns. The number of chil- 

 dren of school age (between five and twenty- 

 one years) was 1,735,073. There are 132,303 

 more children of school age resident in the 

 cities than in the towns of the State. The 

 number who attended the public schools at 

 some time during the year was 1,027,767. The 

 average daily attendance was 625,813. The 

 whole number instructed in the common 

 schools, normal schools, academies, colleges, 

 private schools, law - schools, and medical 

 schools, was 1,212,327. There are 11,940 pub- 

 lic school-houses, of which 62 are log, 370 

 stone, 1,409 brick, and 10,099 frame. The 

 average number of weeks' school taught, in the 

 cities was 39'7, and in the towns 33'6 weeks. 



The amount paid for teachers' wages is greater 

 than ever before by the sum of $339,318.54. 

 In 1870 the average salary paid teachers was 

 $372.58; in 1880, it was $369.56; in 1886, 

 $409.27. The aggregate valuation of school 

 property is greater than ever before by the 

 sum of $2,314,503. The actual expense of 

 maintaining the common schools is $181,381.53 

 less than in the preceding year. The appro- 

 priation to common schools made by the Legis- 

 lature in 1886 being $500,000 larger than ever 

 before, the allotments to districts will be cor- 

 respondingly increased. The " district quota" 

 for 1887 is $76.08 as against $66.12 in 1886, 

 and $44.94 in 1885. 



It seems that 59 per cent, of the school pop- 

 ulation attended the public schools at some 

 time during the year; in 1880, it was 62 per 

 cent., and in 1870, it was 69 per cent. The 

 average attendance, taking the entire year to- 

 gether, was 36 per cent, of the children of 

 school age ; in 1880 it was 35 per cent., and in 

 1870 32 per cent. 



The decline in proportionate attendance is 

 probably to be attributed to the increased at- 

 tendance in private and parochial schools. 



There are nine normal schools in the State, 

 employing 128 teachers, with a total enroll- 

 ment in all departments of 5,608. The enroll- 

 ment in the normal departments was 2,778. 

 The number of graduates in the normal depart- 

 ments was 364. There was paid from the free- 

 school fund for the maintenance of these schools 

 for the year ending Sept. 30,1886, the sum of 

 $158,639.81, and there was paid from the gen- 

 eral fund, for additions and improvements to 

 buildings, the sum of $95,182.09. The tuition 

 fees received in the several schools from pu- 

 pils in the academic and practice departments 

 amounted to the sum of $11,109.80. 



The new normal school at New Paltz began 

 operations in February. The present enroll- 

 ment in the normal, academic, and practice 

 departments is 152. The addition to the build- 

 ing at Potsdam has been completed ; the ad- 

 dition at Geneseo is in progress. The Buffalo 

 building has been repaired, and repairs have 

 also been made at Oswego and Cortland. 



The tables show that 77 teachers' institutes 

 were held during the year, at which about 

 17,500 teachers were registered. Institutes 

 were held in every county of the State with 

 the exception of New York and Hamilton. 



Pursuant to the provisions of the act of 1886, 

 an agreement was entered into in June with 

 the American Museum of Natural History, at 

 Eighth Avenue and Seventy-seventh Street in 

 the city of New York, for supplying to teachers 

 in the public schools of New York and Brooklyn, 

 and to the Normal College in the city of New 

 York, theTeachers' Training Schoolin Brooklyn 

 and to all the normal schools in the State, courses 

 of instruction illustrated by the^stereopticon 

 process, on human and comparative anatomy, 

 physiology, zoology, physical geography, and 

 other subjects. 



