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Title: Report of the survey of the public school system of School district no. 1, Multnomah County, Oregon
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Portland School District. Survey committee Montague, Richard Ward, 1862-1935 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941
Subjects: Portland Public Schools (Or.) Education
Publisher: (Portland, Or., Schwab printing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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-fourth of theschool money for sites and new buildings in 1901-02, the Boardhas been compelled to increase such expenditures up to over one-half of the yearly expenses. The annual costs for maintainingthe school plant created (insurance, janitors, fuel, light andpower, water, telephone, and repairs) have naturally also stead-ily increased, as is shown. The result has been that, by 1912,only forty per cent of the money expended for schools was spentfor the real work of the schools,—instruction and the adminis-tration of instruction. The year 1913 shows a decrease in ex-penditures for sites and buildings, but it is probable that thisdrop is temporary only, and that following years will again wit-ness large expenditures. 216 SCHOOL SURVEY REPORT There is no reason to think that the growth of Portland andthe increase in school population will, in the next half-centuryat least, suffer anything more than temporary checks. On thecontrary, with the opening of the Panama Canal, the coming of
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CHAP. XII. BUILDINGS AND SITES PROBLEM 217 immigrant families with larger numbers of children, the gradualdecrease in the percentage of unmarried men in the city, andthe general settlement of the Northwest, there is every reasonto expect that the present increase in both school populationand school enrollment will not only continue, but will also in-crease in rate. There is also reason to believe that both the cityand the school district will be materially increased in size, bythe annexation of outlying territory, which in turn will requireadditional expenditures for school facilities. If Portland werenot a rapidly growing city, with a large future ahead of it, theschool-building problem would be much easier than it now is.It is relatively easy to provide for the needs of a stationarycommunity. The building problem is still further complicated by a re-cent city ordinance requiring fire-proof construction for allschool buildings. This has added fifty-five per cent to the costof constru

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