85 cents is spent on the white schools, 7 cents on the colored schools, and 

 8 cents on adminstration, etc. (Table No. 22, on page VII of the Ap- 

 pendix is an itemized account of how $1 of the school's money is spent.) 

 The average total cost of maintaining a white school is $1,407.16 per year; 

 a colored school costs only $379.92 per year. The average total cost of 

 educating each white pupil in regular attendance is $40.55 per year; the 

 annual expense to the county of .each colored pupil is $10.49. The white 

 schools cost the county $568.88 per day in session, which is $7.48 per 

 school per day. The colored schools cost $81.38 per day in session, or 

 $2.71 per school per day. (See Table No. 23, Appendix page VII, for 

 total figures on the various items of expense.) From this it would 

 appear that colored pupils are an economy, but that white pupils are, in 

 fact, a luxury. 



The question of where the school's money comes from is interesting 

 from several points of view. (Table No. 24, on page VII of the Appendix, 

 "Where $1 of the School's Money Comes From," is a statement of the 

 various sources of income.) Just 61.7% of the school's income is raised 

 by taxation. The county's receipts from the State school levy of 16| 

 cents on each $100 were $26,830.41; from the county levy of 31.4 cents 

 per $100, $47,500. The total receipts from all sources were $120,895.90. 

 The tax levy, of course, is on the basis of the assessed valuation of the 

 property, which for the county over is not three-quarters of the actual 

 value, so that in point of fact the total tax levy for school purposes hardly 

 represents .35 per cent. Twenty-four per cent, of all money raised is 

 acquired by loans, a much higher per cent, than in any other county in 

 the State. For the entire State, loans represent only 4.6% of the entire 

 amount raised. There is no way in which the school expenses can be cut 

 down. In fact, increased expenditure will be required if the schools are 

 to make substantial progress in the future. It would seem that the tax 

 payers are guilty of a short-sighted policy in compelling the school 

 administration to raise by loans 24% of the money needed for necessary 

 expenses. 



The Schools Twelve Years Ago 



A bulletin of the department of labor prepared by Prof. W. T. Thom 

 summarizes the school situation for the year 1898/99 as follows: "In 

 1898/99 the county had 114 public schools, which were open nine months. 

 Of these 81 were white schools, with 100 teachers (33 male and 67 female) , 

 82 of the buildings, valued at $51,375, being owned by the county, and 

 33 were colored schools, with 40 teachers (9 males and 31 females), 25 of 

 the buildings, valued at $9,615, being owned by the coimty. The average 

 yearly salary of the teachers was $328.90. For these schools the county 

 received from the State School tax $16,181.30; from the free-school fund, 



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