Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-14
THE PAY OF TEACHERS.
The School Board Settles q Vexed
Question.


THEIR SEPTEMBER PAY-THE SCHOOLS NOT
To BE OPENED UNTIL SEPTEMBER Doth FOR
"HYGIENIC REASONS - NEW TEXT BOOKS
ADoPTED-rEACHERS APPOINTED, ETC.
The school board last night settled the ques-
tion OF how to adjust teachers salaries in
accordance with the plan described in THE
STAR. Mr.. Brooks, from the special committee
consisting OF the two superintendents and
himself, appointed to consider the matter of
salaries, reported that the proposed organiza-
tion of the schools as arranged by the various
local committees contemplated the employ
ment of 62S teachers. their aggregate salaries
amounting to S426,251. The act of appropria-
ton limited the number to be employed at go
at a rate of compensation not to exceed the rate
provided by the existing schedule and at an
average salary not to exceed $6TO. For this
purpose S415,4O has been appropriated, or
$lo,S5l less than the estimates OF the local
committees.
at was found to be impossible" the report
continued. "to organize the schools with the
present corps of teachers at salaries they have
been receiving in the past, according to author
lied schedule, without slight reduction OF
their pay.
After careful study of the whole subject in
conference with the respective local commit
tees, an organization has been agreed To which
it is believed will best subserve all the in
OF the schools. This organization aggregates in
teachers and salaries follows:
Number of teachers. .....................6 500
The amount given above is found to be
STOPS, or about one-siXth of one months sal
AIRY larger than the amount allowed by Con-
greSs.
Your committee therefore respectfully re-
commend to the board that the public schools
of the District of Columbia be reopened Sep.
tember 20, 1856, and that only five-siXths OF
the monthly pay be allowed and paid To the
supervising principals and teachers of the
public schools for September, 1SS6."
THE ESTIMATES AND THE APPROPRIATION.
ST. nat mhar1
1885. the board submitted to the Commits
| siOners detailed estimates for the year SS6-7,
asking $43O,OOO for teachers at average
salary OF $3.50. Congress appropriated 81 D.
400, ana liked the average at 500 The amount
asked for by the board was what was actually
needed unless 1T WAS intended To cut do wn SAL
aries. The Commissioners, however. asked for
only S41O,OOo. To this amount the House
| added $4,000. The Senate subsequently ad-
ded $4,000, making the total S4l 200, but the
$4,000 was stricken out in conference.
Mr.. Darlington objected he said, with reluct-
ance, TO a plan providing for the payment of
hve-sixth OF a months salary in September for
one-third OF a month S work. After some dis
cusslon resolution was passed adopting the
schedule OF salaries proposed in Mr.. Brook )
report. Then another resolution was offered To
open the schools September both, and was
urged by Messrs. Fish and Brooks the
grounds that the schools should not be opened
| earlier on account of the warm weather. Mr..
Darlington supported the resolution on this
ground, and 1t was carried.
NEW TEXT BOOKS.
Mr.. Clark, from the committee on text books,
recommended the adoption of the Barnes series
OF physiOlogies in the schools to carry out the
provisions of the law requiring that the effects
of alcohol and narcotics upon the human sys-
TEN be taught in the schools. The series en-
brace The Child's Health Primer for the pri.
| mary grades, Hygiene for Young People tor
the intermediate grades, and "Steeies Hygi-
enic Physiology" TOR the higher grades and the
@ % Prof. sa T. Rchards alsI
Arithmetic as a reference book; that Robin.
sons series of mathematics be continued in the
| schools, and that the SuperintendentS he per-
mitted to use in the schools the new edition OF
Swinton's Biographies, provided they can be
introduced without additional expense To pu-
| pills. The recommendations of the committed
We're approved.
The designations of Misses Bette E. Hudnell,
Lucy Adams and Alice NJ. White teachers
We're accepted. A second d-class certificate was
| awarded 10 Miss Laura F. Dyson.
Applications !or teachers positions Were re-
ceived from VIM. Ii. Coleman, James Storu IN
and Mary h. Pentield.
NEW TEACHERS.
The local committees submitted their lists of
| teachers for the year, showing that none of the
old teachers had been dropped. The following
are the additional teachers appointed:
Graduates from the Normal school, including
| the entire class for 1SS6-Misses Catharine V.
Allen, Bertha j. Armstrong, Clara Lee Barrow,
Mary Ann Berry, Elizabeth c. Boude, Theodora
Bradley, Elizabeth V. Brown, Josephine Burke
Frances J. Campbell, Coraline Cawood, Jean
nette Cohen, Adelaide q. Dawson, Annie NJ.
FOley, AleAauuTa Nailshl,
Nina Gunon, Myrtle q. Hughes. Mary n. Love-
joy, Mary +. Mollon, Hiida North, Cora Amelia
Ossire, Mary Vernon Potter, Vesta Richards,
Annie Elizabeth Scammell, Corrie Stuart,
Annie E. Walker, Hattie Il. White, Blanch d.
Williams, Flora V. Wylie and Grace A. w alIler.
graduates-Jennie Davis, Ellen NJ. Hayes,
Percy Hughes and Walter u. Wessen. For the
cOlored schools-Hugh NJ. Brown, NJ. Bessie
Smith, j. Ellen catcher and Ida Malvin.
OF the twenty young ladies recently graduated
from the Minor Normal school the following
have been assigned to schools: Misses Alice
Ashton, Rebecca Baldwin, Georgia Brooks, j.
Eleanor catcher, Emma Davis, Josephine
Evans, Amelia Heathman, Mamie Jackson,
Martha Liggons, LYDIA Malvin, Sarah Riddles,
NJ. Bessie Smith, Anna Smith, Mary SyphaX