Certain orities of the Shanghai Municipal Council's expenditure on education appear to be under the Impression that the Increase in the Education Budget arises largely from the rising cost of the Council's own schools, "This is not correct. As was pointed out in this journal when first discussing the Special Education Report on April 8, the Council's expenditure on its own foreign schools fy actually declining. 1t has reduced the number of such schools from seven to five. Operating charges, by which the cost of the foreign schools can be best gauged, have fallen from {$811,252 in 1031. to $598,630 in 1996. 'The increase in the total expenditure On foreign Schools 1s parily due to the grants-in-aid which have risen from' $163,420 in 1931 to $180,000 in 1036. Operating charges for Chinese schools have risen from $520,244 in 1931 to $693,179 in 1996;" grants-inid from $146,831 (in 1932) 10 $225,108 in 1996. The total expenditure on Foreign Schools in 1931 was $974,672 and in 1936. $1,080,000. On Chinese Schools it was $1,501,228 in 1031 and $2,376,771 in 1936. It is obvious that ithe whole question of the Council's future policy, as raised in the Special Education Report has to be carefully studied inthe tight of these Agures, but it is by no means clear that the substitution of grant-aided schools for Council Schools would effect the economies which seem to some orities to peso desirable, what-fever the actual facts of the educa anal problem may be.
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