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

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TO assistants average salary not exceeding. 600
No salary OF an assistant teacher snail exceed that
OF u wee principal OF the same school.
PRINCIPALS OF FoURrREN YEARS STANDING.
persons employed principals OF grammar or Of pri-
mary departments and schools and who shall Eavo
boon employed Tor period OF fourteen years, and
VINO shall have flied ther positions with acceptable
ity TO the Board OF Education shall be paid less
than the following annual salaries, VIE -
For principals OF male departments. 500
For principals OF female departmens. 1900
For principals OF primary departments and
JUNIOR rHAoaxns Ali male assistant toaoo:rs ap.
less than years. experiences az Instructors in the
sch ,ols OF tnis city or elsewhere. and all female
Date as above, who have had less than one
years. experience rs instructors IN the public
schools OF this city, shall be known Junior teachers
aud DO PAID for their nrst years. servlce-males. q
salary of 500 per annum; females, salary Of $400
per aonum-ln1 on the expiration OF the years. SER
vice Trey shall DC subsequently, entitled 10 salaries
assistant teachers calculated upon tue average rate
prescribed in this article. The salaries OF junior
teachers shall not DO estimated in The average
allowed the several departments
Salaries OF assistant teachers shall be graded BY the
trustees OF the respective wards ia applying the aver
age allowed Tor The respective schools and de.
partmens, SO that In no case the difference between
the salaries Of any Two successive srades shalt exceed
$500 TO mae teachers Every part OF this section
was fought by means oil amendments, which had to
be disposed OF before II could DO passed.
Al the close OF the debate Mr.. Walker moved the
adoption Of the whole section an amendment TO the
bylaws OF the Board accompanying his motiou with
After Mr. Walker had finished, the opponents Of
the measure, among whom were Commissioners
Wheeler, Watson and Jsilire, spoke At length
They roundly censured the Board OF Apportion-
mont for having cut down their estimates
IRON $3,90o,O00 to $3,4o0.oO0. some Of them
IN iavor oil making no reduction at all aud Ut
petit,onng the Legislature for an appropriation 10
cover the deficiency. Diners agreed that inasmuch
as the Board OF Apportionment had made the reduce
ton the Comm issioners had no alternative but to
submit They claimed. however, that tue reduction
might be made III the higher salaries instead OF taking
the money from the poorer paid female teachers.
Commissioner Watson took occasion to read the
salary list oil officers and teachers oil the Normal Col
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ing Mr.. Dowd to take the chair he spogc IN favor OF
tho institution. The college, ne sara, had l. 500 stu
dents, exclusive OF the training department. There
only thrty-sx Instructors. including the Prcs,
scholars 10 teachers the inst entitled to
four more Instructors. the cost OF SUPERVISION Of
college than that oil any other Institution
in charge OF the Board Of Education ln the training
department., with bit nine hundred pupils, there
we're only nlueleen teachers the professors were
mostly underpaid, some Of thom receiving
WIS paid s4,75o. Many Of The departments
were consolidated. and In several inst ances
Instructor had TO teach two or three different
branches. They had received advance their sal.
aries although the teachers In nearly all the
schools had got advance OF twenty per cent since
1870. Tue Instructors IN the primary department had
not been paid even primary school rates, although
they performed extra WORK.
When Mr.. Wood resumed the chair, after q few
moro amendments had been voted down, the section
was adopted by vote of 10 lo2 The reduction IN
salaries OF jantors was adopted proposed and also
the five per cent reduction IN the sala
RES OF the President, professors and instructors
In the Normal College, where the salary exceeded
ST. 900. Further changes in the bylaws relating TO
teachers were on motion made SPECIAL order for
meeting tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock
II was alter ten o'clock when the meeting ad
journed.