Excerpt from Trends of School Costs Per cent increases in salaries and wages; The trend since 1915; The wage value of the teacher's salary; The artisan's wage a working standard; Summary; The Trend of Building Costs; An index number for building costs; Increases 1913 to 1920; Actual costs in Cleveland; An index of cost changes; Summary; Doubling the School Budget; Salary levels; New buildings; Other expenditures; A summary estimate; Will prices and wages fall?; Summary; Sources of Income; The general property tax; School costs outstrip property values; Keeping down the tax rate; An increasing share for schools; Sources of increased revenues; Summary; Appendix I. - Method of determining trend lines; Index 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.