Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of the Board of Education: For the Year Ending July 3, 1869 Only ten years have elapsed since the President of this Board first made a report of the progress of the schools for the year then just past, and pre sented his suggestions for the work of the year to come. Meanwhile the city has enlarged in area from fifteen square miles to thirty-eight, and increased in population from fifty thousand to three hundred thousand inhabitants. Her schools were then thirteen in number, em ploying one hundred and one teachers, with an average enrolment of pupils. The present year closes with thirty schools, employing four hundred and seventy-nine teachers, with an aver age enrolment of pupils. At that time the total expenses of the schools were distributed as follows: Salaries of teachers and superintendent, incidentals, rent of buildings, The total expenses of the current year have been divided as follows: Salaries of teachers and superintendent, other cur rent expenses, for permanent improve ments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.