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Abstract of Report on the Condition of the Freedmen's Schools for the Month ending March 31, 1867.
We are indebted for the following interesting information concerning the prosperity of the colored schools, etc., to Rev. D. Burt[[strikethrough]]e[[/strikethrough]], Superintendent of Education, B. R. F. and A. L., for the State of Tennessee:

Schools by benevolent societies  77 
Private schools  19 
Total number of schools  96 
White teachers  103 
Colored teachers  34 
Total number of teachers  137 
Total number of pupils  8,550 
Average attendence  5,732 
In geography  1,785 
In arithmetic  2,942 
In writing  2,951 
In higher branches  265 
Rents and repairs by Bureau during the month  $895.76 
Transportation of teachers during the month  220.15 
Paid by freedmen toward these schools  1,815.00 
Paid by benevolent societies  6,151.41 
Total expense of schools  8,082.32 

Two new schools have been opened during the month of March, one at Alexandria and one at Jonesboro'. The enrollment of this month is 451 less than that of the preceding month, in consequence of excessive rains, which have kept small children at home. The average attendance has been better in March than it was in February, evincing that the pupils have persevered under the difficulties of mud and high water. The progress of the schools has been gratifying, and the purpose to sustain them firm. The contributions of the freedmen for the past month ($1,815) have been unusually large. Calls for new schools are increasing from communities where the colored people will pay the board of the teachers. Our great want is funds for paying their salaries.

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Updated to remove table -- this is a list, not a table.