The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-12

Commissioner Walker next moved his amendments
prefacinK them with q lew remarks. He said that
the principle the subcommittee had tried to reeoz
nize was that persons doing the same work In tho
different schools should be paid the same salary. Tho
amendments, though holly debated section BY SEQ
ton, finally carried substantially as they had
been presented, in spite OF all conceivable amend
ments offered by the opponents OF the measure.
TIE SALARY LIST.
SYcrroy 35-The annual salaries paid to teach
era m the male grammar schools shall be as
follows :--Male Department-io principals. IN
schools having an average a'enaah'e LOT mo ,.o
ISL TO 800. ..............'..... Eo0U
30l to 500 100
TO Woe principals in schools having an aver
ave attendance for tho preceding year Of
grammar grade of less than $50 ............" LSO0
Two hundrcd and nfty and upward. 1000
To male assistants where but one is employed. TOO
whore two more are employed an average
To female assistants average not exceeding. 800
FEMALE DEPARrMENT.-rne annual salaries paid to
teachers in Female Grammar Schools shall be as fol-
To principals In schools having an average at
tendance the preceding year Of 100 or less$1 200
1Ol TO 1b0... ....................... LoOu
151 TO 30O.... !ooU
3Ol TO 500. ..............'......... ooo
TO- 10, vice.prncpai in schools having an average
attendance Tor the preceding year oil gram-
a. mar mar craze o. less 'nan ySO
To assistants an average salary exceeding. 725
salaries paid teachers primary departments and
schools shall be as ioilows-
TO principals in schools having an average at
Iopdance for the preceding year oil zoo or
less. 600
POI to 400. ia00
40l to 60J. 900
To vice principals schools having All average
attendance Tor the preceding Of under $780,. $500
$50 to 5OO;average.. YOU
5Ol TO l,O00.... iVOU
l.0Ol and upward i's0O
No salary OF an assistant teacher shall exceed that
OF II wee principal OF the same school -,
PRINCIPALS FoURrRBN YEARS. STANDING All
persons employed principals OF grammar Of pri
mary departme nts and schools anu who shall Eavo
VINO snail have flied their positions with acceptable
Ivy the Board OF Education shall be paid not loss
than the following annual salaries, VIE -
For principals OF male departments. 500
For prime pals OF female departments. 1900
For principals OF primary departments and
JUNIOR TKAonERs ALI male assistant teacnsrs ap.
pointed and alter the LIST day OF January, 1875 OF
less than years. experience as Instructors in the
sch ,ols OF THIS city or elsewhere, and all female
assistant teachers appointed on and after the eauo
date as above, who have had less than one
years experience vs. instructors IN the public
schools OF this city, shall be known Junior teachers
and DO PAID for tnelr FIRST year's sefvice-males .
salary Of 500 per aunum; females, salary OF $400
per aunum-au1 on the expiration OF the years. SER
vice Trey shall be subsequently, entitled 10 salaries
assistant teachers calculated upon tue average ratio
prescribed in this article. The salaries OF junior
teachers shall not DO estimated In The average sum
Allowed
Salaries OF assistant teachers shall be graded BY the
trustees Of the respective wards III applying the aver
age sums allowed Tor the respective schous and de-
partments, that In case The difference between
the salaries Of any successive grader shall exceed
of 500 to female teachers and the sum Of
$500 TO maie teachers Every part OF this section
vas fought by means oil amendments, which had to
BE- disposed Of before II could DO passed.
A. the close OF the debate Mr.. Walker moved the
adoption Of the whole section amendment to the
bylaws OF the Board. accompanying his mosiou with
After Mr. Walker had finished, the opponents Of
the measure, among whom were Commissioners
Wheeler, Watson and JslhGe. spoke at length.
mcnt for having cut down their esumatea
from $a,soo,OoO to $S.4OO,Ooo some of them
III iavvr OF making no reduction at all and Of
pctit,onng the Legislature for an appropriation 10
cover the deficiency. Diners agreed that inasmuch
ton the Com mssIouers had no alternative but to
submit They claimed, however, that the reduction
might be made the higher salaries instead OF taking
the money from the poorer paid female teacnsrs
Commissioner Watson took occasion TO read the
salary list Of officers and teachers Of the Normal Col
This brought President Wood TO his feet, and, call.
ing Mr. Dowd TO take the chair he spoke IA favor Of
tho institution. The college, ne said, had 1500 stu
dents, exclusive OF the training department There
only thrty-six instructors, including the Prcs,-
dent According 10 the present superintendent OF
scholars 10 teachers, the institute was entitled TO
tour more Instructors. The cost OF SUPERVISION of
college than that OF any other Institution
in charge OF the Board OF Education In the training
department, with eight or nine hundred pupils there
were only nineteen teachers the professors were
$500 tor work whicn in the other schools
was paid s4750 Many Of the departments
were consolidated, and In several Instances
one Instructor had 10 teach two tnrce different
branches. They received advance their SAL
aries, although the teachers In nearly all the other
schools had got an advance OF twenty per cent since
1870 Tue Instructors IN the primary department hsd
not been paid even primary school rates, although
thcy performed extra WORK.
Wnen Mr.. Wood resumed the chair, after few
moro amen ments mad been voted down, the section
was adopted by vote Of 10 to2 The reduction In
nj TIM npe adm al adj and al
the five per cent reduction ia the sala.
RES OF the President, professors and instructors
In the Normal College, where the salary exceeded
81, 900. Further changes in the bylaws relating to
teachers motion made q SPECIAL order for q
meeting tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock
II was alter ten O'Clock when the meeting ad.
journed.
ITALIAN SCHOOL FESTIVAL.