Il 183 .N5 E4 I Copy 1 No. 2 REPORT ON THE EXPENDITURES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN CONNECTION WITH THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 1899 TO 1914 BY WILLIAM A. PRENDERGAST COMPTROLLER BUREAU OF MUNICIPAL INVESTIGATION AND STATISTICS JUNE, 1915 No. 2 REPORT ON THE EXPENDITURES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN CONNECTION WITH THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 1899 TO 1914 BY WILLIAM A. PRENDERGAST COMPTROLLER BUREAU OF MUNICIPAL INVESTIGATION AND STATISTICS JUNE, 1915 D. of D^ EP ^ J I?: » 3143-15-500 V X June 9, 1915. Hon. William A. Prendergast, Comptroller of The City of Nezu York: Dear Sir — There is submitted below a report upon the expenditures of The City of New York in connection with the maintenance and operation of its Department of Education in the years 1899 to 1914, inckisive. The classifications and the figures in the statements included herein are based upon the annual reports of the City Superintendent of Schools and cover the school years ending July 31st. Section 1060 of the City Charter provides, in part : " All moneys raised for educational purposes in the city of New York shall be raised in two funds, to be known as the special school fund and the general school fund, respectively. The general school fund shall consist of all moneys raised for the payment of salaries of the city superintendent, associate city superintendents and district superintendents, director and assistant director of the division of ref- erence and research, members of the board of examiners, attendance officers, lecturers and all members of the supervising and teaching staff * * *. The special school fund shall contain and embrace all moneys raised for educational purposes not comprised in the general school fund." The expenses paid from the special school fund are mainly for care and repair of buildings, etc., for educational supplies and equipment, for fuel, and for the salaries of those administering this fund. Section 1064 specifies the amount which the city shall contribute to the general school fund: " The board of estimate and apportionment shall appropriate for the general school fund for the year nineteen hundred and two and annually, for each year thereafter, an amount equivalent to not less than three mills on every dollar of assessed valuation of the real and personal estate in the city of New York liable to taxation.' For the calendar year, 1915, the total tax-budget allowance to the Department of Education for the general school fund was. . .$32,609,695 92 The three-mill allowance under section 1064 was 25,170,466 41 Excess over mandatory requirements $7,439,229 51 While this latter amount is not technically mandatory, most of it is practically so. The $7,439,229.51 is made up substantially of $5,000,000, estimated as the increased cost of operation due to the equal-pay law 3 4 (section 1091 of the Charter), $1,244,447.61 for the activities set forth in section 1069 of the Charter, which, in the judgment of the city authorities, it was not wise to curtail, and $1,194,781.99, mainly for evening trade, high and elementary schools. Statement No. 1 — This statement shows an increase of $20,736,104.82 in the expenditures of the general school fund from $9,300,249.28 in 1899 to $30,036,354.10 in 1914, or 222.9 per cent. The special school fund expenditures increased $4,800,929.66 in the same period from $2,506,749.94 to $7,307,679.60, or 191.5 per cent. The increases in the general school fund expenditures of 1900 and 1901 of $4,800,000 over those of 1899 were due largely to the bringing of the salaries of the outlying boroughs up to the Manhattan rates ; and the increase in the expenditures of 1913 over 1911 of $5,600,000 was due largely to the equal-pay and the Silverstein laws (chap. 534, laws 1913). The total expenditures during this period, from the proceeds of cor- porate stock or bonds, for the acquisition of school sites, the erection of school buildings and extensions, and the equipment thereof, aggregated $106,180,030.72 out of total bonds issued by the city during the same period for all purposes of $497,000,000, or over twenty-one per cent. Statements Nos. 2 and 2-A — These statements analyze by functions the expenditures of $308,087,530.95 from the general school fund, 1899 to 1914, shown in Statement No. 1. It will be noted that the largest percentages of increase in expenditures are: Cooking 483 .31 Drawing, manual training and shopwork 275 . 7o High schools 208. 37 Kindergartens 176 . 09 Training schools 147 . 77 Evening schools 127 . 77 While these items display the largest increases in percentage of expendi- tures, the heaviest increases in amount of expenditures were in : Elementary school principals and teachers $9,607,825 78 High schools, 1904 to 1914, included 1899 to 1903 in elemen- tary school expenses 2,943,782 38 Kindergartens 778,396 79 Evening schools 611,028 81 Statement No. 3 — This statement shows an increase in the expendi- tures from the general school fund from $8,059,958.89 in 1899 to $28,- 026,945.64 in 1914, or $19,966,986.75, a percentage of increase of 351.4. This statement includes only the day activities, exclusive of vacation schools and playgrounds. Statement No. A — In this compilation are shown, for the years 1899 to 1914, the estimated population of the city and the average daily register and attendance in the various day schools. It will be seen that while the increase in general population is 57.4 per cent., that in the school registration is 86 per cent. In the high schools and the kindergartens the increase is respectively 434.4 and 969.1 per cent. Statement No. 5 — This exhibits the distribution of the supervising and teaching forces by functions in the day and evening schools. Statement No. 6 — Here are shown for the years 1907 to 1914 the num- ber of classes for school children defective in various respects. Respectfully, R. B. McINTYRE, Supervising Statistician and Examiner. O H Q W Q O to O c ►:7' ct3 (^ H ,— I < o • ^ tj O P CO W o H "^^ r^ tL, ^ w s t; s ^ a ^ ^ P:i H -v w fc Q a. 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