. School survey, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1916. o the schools, 1, by a com-parison of the absolute expenditure per person for each of thecity departments; 2, by a comparison of the per cent of the totalgovernmental cost payments that goes to each basis for judgment is sufficient if taken alone; the twotaken together provide a method of determining the status ofthe question. Table LXVIII and Diagram LXXXII present theabsolute expenditures per inhabitant, and Table LXIX and Dia-gram LXXXIII the percentile expenditures. The last columnof Table LXVIII indicates that Grand Rapids
. School survey, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1916. o the schools, 1, by a com-parison of the absolute expenditure per person for each of thecity departments; 2, by a comparison of the per cent of the totalgovernmental cost payments that goes to each basis for judgment is sufficient if taken alone; the twotaken together provide a method of determining the status ofthe question. Table LXVIII and Diagram LXXXII present theabsolute expenditures per inhabitant, and Table LXIX and Dia-gram LXXXIII the percentile expenditures. The last columnof Table LXVIII indicates that Grand Rapids spends slightly lessper inhabitant than the average city in the group, (although theabsolute difference is slight) for the operation of all city depart-ments. But of the total governmental cost payments, it devotesa larger percentage of its municipal income to schools than allbut three of the 19 cities. It ranks third in the 19 in the abso-lute amount spent for schools. The city is devoting relatively 378 SCHOOL SURVEY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DIAGRAM LXXXI—Expenditures for all school purposes per $1000 of real wealth— 19 cities. little of its income to police, highways, sanitation and charities,but a comparatively large proportion to schools. Nearly one-half of its municipal income goes to the support of the publicschools. Table LXX indicates the position of the city in the listof 19 cities, in the per cent of total governmental cost paymentsdevoted to the various city departments. Thus, the city is notonly liberal in its total expenditures per inhabitant, and its COST OF PUBLIC EDUCATION 379 TABLE LXVIII Expenditures19 Cities 1912 GenlCITIES Govt. per :.* Police Inhabitant for Various Sani- High-Fire Health tation ways City D Char-ities epartments. TotalExpensefor all Gen-Schools eral Depts. Albany Birmingham Bridgeport Cambridge 1.
Size: 1446px × 1727px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjecteducationalsurveys
