Counties. No. of townships. Whole districts. Fractional districts. Table of statistical details of the schools in Michigan for the year 1869. Counties. Table of statistical details of the schools of Michigan for the year 1869—Continued. RECEIPTS. EXPENDITURES. St. Clair Tuscola Wexford.. 4, 167 25 3,043 83 46, 950 28 5,716 51 8, 656 16 7,057 82 3, 421 43 452 98 14, 343 63 27, 794 93 11, 771 29 4,525 26 705 12 64 00 1, 920 85 10 00 8,795 50 12, 964 11 30,549 52 5, 197 07 13, 263 81 6, 401 17 25, 907 54 2, 416 08 5,971 19 1,242 11 332 20 22, 302 24 9, 180 38 14, 760 05 884 95 26,847 49 85, 166 94 11, 688 97 14, 709 54 4, 162 37 1,981 67 20, 982 6614, 591 63 571 87 12, 299 94 5,714 55 17, 758 23 916 49 3,406 98 64, 206 51 14, 293 13 2,529 92 1,764 66 17, 910 89 15,003 68 973 47 230 87 9,092 47 3,878 47 96 20 701 03 22, 376 95 4,842 10 4, 172 28 5,884 34 2,381 35 654 25 14, 959 95 18,961 74 1,210 85 8,417 17 63, 283 79 11, 065 54 8,376 45 18, 519 29 3, 344 30 3,063 29 23, 894 96 35, 723 20 709 97 19,840 68 121, 020 16 22, 253 74 31, 348 24 79 97 16,592 81 22 93 4,058 99 895 04 67, 844 66 63, 426 18 79, 475 98 317, 286 12 23,580 67 64, 162 63 3, 228 41 18,878 08 44, 398 17 62, 251 64 7, 699 57 2,815 05 145 25 8, 444 01 15,761 44 45, 565 33 7 55 22 40 604 87 86 85 145 43 7 18 37 50 653 00 638 22 25 50 761 81 341 15 60 00 170 00 2,904 75 412 18 264 00 2.50 1,882 42 42 00 286 48 326, 446 22 323, 246 12 165, 960 51 94, 752 55 24, 659 00 571, 564 11 737, 054 67 25, 337 63 490, 076 13 2,771,653 92 430, 901 81 728, 559 05 776, 074 00 123, 832 43 MINNESOTA. The report of the State superintendent of instruction, Hon. Mark H. Dunnell, for the year ending 1869, embraces the following: Number of districts not reporting 144 Number of children in State between five and twenty-one. Number attending school ............. 102, 086 20, 390 Number not attending any school 42, 328 Decrease in number not attending any school Whole number of male teachers... Whole number of female teachers Average wages of male teachers per month.. 4,888 1,155 2,620 $33 91 $2 32 192 307 Average wages of female teachers per month........ Whole amount paid teachers during the year Amount apportioned from permanent school fund The permanent school fund derived from the sale of the school lands of the State, embracing sections 16 and 36, amounts to $2,377,712 15. The total amount invested is $762,800. The disbursement of the interest of the fund, based upon the number of scholars between five and twenty-one years of age, was, for 1869, $148,533 26. Taking into account the number of districts which did not report, it is estimated that the aggregate number of persons in the State between five and twenty-one years of age cannot be less than 155,000. The non-attendance has decreased eight per cent. during the year, a result which proves the wisdom of county supervision. Earnest men have been at work, instructing the teachers, and commending to pupils and parents the importance of public education. The per cent. of gain in the number of months schools have been taught throughout the State has been 15, while the per cent. of gain in the number of scholars has been but 10. The teachers' institutes, the normal schools, the Journal of Education, general and local supervision, are the agencies by which this progress has been accomplished. The institutes have been like movable batteries, aimed at the indifference of communities. Teachers, school officers, and parents have been awakened by them. A law of the State makes it the duty of the superintendent to organize and hold a teachers' institute in as many counties as the appropriation made therefor will allow him to do. With the $2,000 appropriated for this purpose, he has held the present year twenty-one institutes, of one week each, at which there was an aggregate attendance of 943 teachers-ladies, 706; gentlemen, 237. This shows a decrease of 103 from last year in the attendance of teachers; a decrease accounted for partly by the bad weather during institute season, rendering the roads nearly impassable, and partly by the fact that in some cases the trustees of district schools decline to close the schools and allow the teachers to attend. This last-named fact is evidence of the need of some law securing attendance. In some counties the county superintendent has organized and held one or more teachers' institutes, continuing in session two, three, four, and five days. The State convention of county superintendents, which it is made the duty of the State superintendent annually to call, was held the present year in Rochester on the 24th and 25th of August. The exercises were highly interesting, though the attendance was quite too small; only fourteen counties being represented. Subjects having an important and practical bearing upon school matters were ably discussed, and resolutions passed, intended to be submitted to the consideration of the legislature. The ninth annual session of the State Teachers' Association was attended by 225 teachers, representing each class of the educational institutions. Among others, the following questions were discussed: "Is a large school fund a blessing or a curse?" "How may drawing be introduced into our public schools?" These meetings, in arousing the public interest in all such questions by earnest and well-prepared discussions, essays, and addresses, justly claim recognition as a popular agency in educational progress. |