COST OF EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 72, 22 September 1930, Page 10

COST OF EDUCATION

.' m& SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK ~ "The Post's" Representative.) j NEW YOBS, 20th August. % costs a million dollars a day to $dnw»ts a million children in this city. .This doily expenditure includes, in '■fcdditioa to salaries of supervising and ■teaching staffs, the average daily cost »C supplies, physical maintenance of Dhe itshool plant, its operation, the administration, business and general outl*ySp repairs and construction of new buildings, made necessary by increas«4'attendance. The cost of education has gone up, |«»th absolutely and in relation to other soihool outlays. It is regarded as signii«*Bti 'however, that the share of the cost •• of instruction proper spent for general supplies, free text books, libi*ry, and other non-salary outlays, h»§ been reduced steadily. In other -rttjrda, the salaries paid to teachers Mid supervisors are more and more :ae«rly coming to represent, by themselv.ee, the cost of instruction proper, Kad| »b the system grows, the increased expenditure will be absorbed by the «Wrt of salaries, while the cost of suppliei will go down in proportion to the wit .of'the school budget. The proportionate cost of repair ana maintenance is also being reduced, despite enormous increase in the number of fchoor buildings. While tho cost of .vetmire Is being reduced, the cost of »««r»tion (custodian services, coal, jfiter, et«.) has been Increasing in re-