New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-04

BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECToRs.-Messrs.
Hahn, Sweet, Cooper, jackson, Mercer,
Longstreet and Mccarthy present. No
quorum, and the board adjourned until next
Wednesday evening. The members present
did not feel pleasant toward the delinquents
as there was much work on hand.
DIR. Mercer and ex- Governor Hahn have
prepared the following report, which we
publish in advance, as it is impOrtaut;
Your committee, appointed to take into
consideration measures for reducing the ex-
penses of the schools, beg leave to present
the following report:
After full examination of the necessi-
ties and condition of the public schools of
the city, and in view of the embarrassed
financial condition of the board, the com
mittee recommend the adoption of the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Res0EUed, That no new appointments of
teachers be made during the present
academical year, but that all vacancies be
filled by transfers from schools now possess
ing an excess of the same.
ReSolUed, That in future appointments of
teachers, the basis adopted shall be an
average attendance of sixty to each
teacher. This suppOses an average Of
forty in the principals room, rising to an
average of seventy in the lower depart
ments.
Resolued, That in all cases of absence
arising from sickness, physician's certi-
ficate shall be required, to be certified by
the director and approved by the board,
before pay shall be allowed for the period
of absence.
ResoLred, That all pupils under six years
old shall be dismissed. and that strict ad-
herence to the law on this point shall here
after be required.
ResolUed, That the leases of all buildings
now rented by the board be allowed to ex-
pire, and that no new leases be entered into
except at such reduced rates as may be
deemed equitable by the board.
ReSOLUed, That in all future appointments
of teachers no female teacher shall be under
the age of eighteen years, and no male
teacher under twenty-one years OF age.
ResOloed, That after the present year all
contracts shall be made on a cash basis,
greenbacks or their equivalent and that
the salaries under this rule be fixed as fol
lows:
Grammar sehOols-Salary of principal.
500 per month; first assistant, SIS; second
assistant, $G5; third assistant, $50.
intermediate schoOls-Salary of principal,
500; first assistant, 20; second assistant, $50;
third assistant, $50 per month.
Primary sehoOls-Salary of principal, SIS;
first assistant, 500; second assistant, SO2 0U;
third assistant, $50 per month.
High schools, central (boys)-Salary of
principal, $1,000 per annum; associate teach
ers, $500. Girls-prineipal, $500; assO-
ciates, $1,000.
The committee further recommends that,
if practicable, in all future appointments
Of teachers contracts shall be made by
which, in case of incOmpetency from any
cause, the board shall have the right to de-
termine the suticiency of the cause and to
dismiss the teacher.
Your committee also reports that nego-
tiatiOns are in progress looking to the pur-
chase of the building and lots owned bv
Dr. Stone, on the corner of Canal and Clai-
borne streets, with view of converting
the same into boys high school. 1t
also recommends the adoption of rule by
which, in the summer session, the schools
shall open at A. NJ. and close at 100 P. NJ,
with the usual intermissiOns.