Show PROGRESS iiI IN AMERICA Over Seventeen Million Pupils Attended School During Year Ended June 1901 Washington Wa Oct 19 InThe The annual re report report report port ef f the commissioner loner of oC education Just submitted to the secretary of ot the interior Int shows that the grand total of ot pupils In schools elementary second secondary secondary secondary ary and higher r both public and private private vate vats in the United States the year ended June II 11 was an increase of or pupils over oyer the pre previous ious year ye r Of this number the en au enrollment aur enrollment r of pupils in institutions sup supported supported supported ported by general and local taxes tans fur furnished fished by states and municipalities like city evening schools business schools schools for Indians reform schools schools connected with any asylums buns lums schools for cookery and other special trades tIMea and vocations to totaled totaled taW nearly halt half a million pupils I Adding the enrollment In these special schools to that for general education the aggregate Ste is something over 17 11 ill of our population that received education for tor a Ii longer or shorter period during the year ending June 30 1901 The value of ot property used for pub public public public lic school purposes has risen to 56 MJ Ni S from Jl 33 in 1810 and the expenditures expenditure for tor the common schools including elementary and secondary schools school but excluding all aU institutions for tor higher education amounted to having risen to this sum from 6 in 1870 In 1870 the ex cx expenditure for schools per capita of ot the population was wu the past year ear earIt It was waa per capita of oC the population population tion host the tM highest hinbest t that it has ever been It was waa an Increase of or 19 II cents to each man loan woman and child ehUd over the year previous The average attendance of each pupil for tor the entire number en enrolled enrolled enroBed rolled roBed was WU ninetynine days of ot the year yur an increase of ot days over 0 the Ute previous J year |