The story of Pittsburgh: Education

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623714

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Education

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 14

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The western theological seminary

Collection:: Economics Books

nings Wilson, Henry T. McClelland, Robert Christie and David Gregg. To-day a complete modern theological curriculum is offered, with elective courses leading to the degrees of 5.T.B. and S.T.M. The faculty consists of seven professors and five instructors. The average enrollment is seventy-five. The president is James A. Kelso, Ph. D., D.D.; secretary, William BR. Farmer. D.D.: registrar. David E. Culley. Ph.D. PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh is very proud of its public school system, which is keeping pace with educational ideas, and is in charge of a fine board of education, with Dr. William M. Davidson as superintendent of public schools, supported by an excellent teaching staff. The total number of children enrolled last year was 105,409 in the public day schools, and 17,876 in the evening schools, making a grand total of 123,285. To do the work of the day schools, more than three thousand teachers and principals are required at the present time, for which the city of Pittsburgh receives $300 per teacher per year (or $900,000) out of funds appropriated by the State to apply on the salaries of teachers. The balance of the teachers’ salaries is paid through revenues derived from local taxation. To teach the students enrolled in the evening schools has required the services of 580 teachers. A part of the salaries of the evening school teachers, by act of the Legislature of 1925, paid out of moneys appropriated by the State and a part out of tax revenues collected by the local district. The day schools are kept open each year for a period of two hundred days, actual schooling, five days each week. The evening schools are kept open for a period of twenty- four weeks each school year. These evening schools open about the middle of September and continue until about the first of April each year. No pupil in a day school is permitted to enroll in a night school, under the age of sixteen. This means that of the

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