Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-05 | Page 11 | Billion a Year for Education

A YEARS YEAR H i FOR EDUCATION 2 Persons 24 Per PerCent PerCent Cent ent of U. U S. S Pop Population lation Attending Schools Tl T l f lat It e t Ifo c W WASHINGTON Jan S. S Thore r.-Thore There t were 23 c. c p persons persona attending in schools schools of or some yome kind In tho the United States tat s In 1916 according lo to estimates of ot the United States bul bureau an of ot tion Uon This ThlE means me declares declare tho the annual an an- nual 11 report of ot th the commissioner loner of ot ed education eel eel- uc Lion that approximately h 21 i per percent percent percent cent of ot the inhabitants of or the United totter I Is attending r school choo as compared com com- pared with 19 10 per cent in treat aln 17 per cent In France CO 0 0 per cent in Germany German and find a a. little over o 4 oi per cent in Russia Russia- Tho Tito ho number of or pupils in public I Kindergarten Kin ln- ln and elementary elemental schools rose front from In 1910 1810 to 1793 In 1914 an Increase of ot more than 1000 In four OUI years cal In the sumo same period the number of or public high school students tu- tu s dents inc increased from rom to 1 1210 lt- lt and for 1916 the corr corresponding figure was The rhe report analyzes the number of teachers In the United Stat States that th of tho teachers were men and women Th The number of ot men te teachers hue Ims increased very very- ventU tU since 1900 tho number of women teachers teacher has hao almost doubled In 1900 teaching positions in public Schools were Tere evenly cul divided between be be between tween men and women At the present time tim s women omen outnumber tho men 1 by Tho average annual t salary r of or nil 11 t teachers is 8 2 Tho The tl figure ure Is the tl l in th the the- East 1st und land North orth Atlantic t states with un and respective respective- respectively ly b and lowest In the tho South Atlantic states It varies from 23 in Jj q to In California nn and U 1 DU Oil In New Yore Fork Expenditures for education on In 1514 1914 p partly estimated totaled close CIOE to 8