St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-06
A SENSIBLE MOVE,
The Manual Training School
to Be Operated With the
High School.
Typewriting and Stenog-
raphy to Be Included in i
the Curriculum.
A Schedule Of Salaries for.
Teachers in the High
School Adopted. a.
Other Imnoptant Addenda
Other Important Addenda
Passed Upon by the School
Inspectors. 20

The board of education had a brief
session yesterday afternoon. The COM
mittee on teachers was not ready to sub
nit report of the choice of the corps,
but this will be done at the meeting to
be held at o'clock Monday afternoon.
Nel5 j. Ness reported that the build
ing vacated by the board April Is, at
334 East Fairfield avenue. is left in
bad condition. Supt. Gilbert explained
that, as a. matter OF fact. the condition
is better than it was when the board
took it. The communication was re-.
ferred to the committee on real estate.
The mechanics pay roll, amounting
to $4,000, was audited, and it will go to
the council. The major portion of the
mechanics have completed their con-
tracts.
superintendent Gilbert explained
that the time for his annual report is so
near at hand that he had concluded it
best to only present an abbreviated
monthly statistical statement. 1t shows:
whole number of pupils enrolled, 49,.
O56; average daily attendance, 11,373;
whole number admitted, 5000, and
those attending the night school, 1,945,
bringing the total up to 1876.
salary schedule
The committee on schools reported
the following, which was adopted:
We recommend the appointment of
Miss Louise roth as teacher of first
grade, Humboldt school. to date from
May l, 1891, i'll place of Miss Byrnes,
granted leave of absence, and that
leave OF absence for one wear. without
pay, by granted to Miss Cora Glidden,
Z. l.. Greenough and Miss l.. Schumm.
We recommend the following sched-
ule of salaries for first primary teach.
ers III buildings of ten rooms or more:
First year, $3.50; second, 5000; third,
$3.50; fourth, 500; fifth, $3.50; sixth
year and over. $500. We also recon-
mend that the following be adopted as
the schedule of salaries for high school,
teachers: Teachers of mathematics,
English and drawing, first year. $3.50:
second, $1,000; third. $1,000; fourth,
81. 100; fifth, 81, 100; sixth year and over,
1000.
Science and languages. first year.
$1,000; second. Sl.2OO; third, Sl,400:
fourth, $1,000; fifth. 1890; sixth year
and over, s., 1000. Provide Ell. That this
schedule shall reduce the salary of no
teacher now in the CORPS
We recommend that the manual train
ing school be made a department of the
high school; that as many classes OF
this department as possible be con-
Quoted in the high school building: that
the privileges of special instruction be-
longing to the ~
Manual Training Department
be open to all high school pupils under
such restrictions ana conditions as this
board may hereafter adopt: that the
programme be so arranged that stu
dents can take their scholastic work
in the high school building at certain
hours of the day and the manual train
Ing work at the manual training build
Ing at other hours; that course in
manual training for girls be arranged
III this building; that as many of the
teachers in the manual training school as
are required TO DO the work of the manual
training department and such increase
OF work as the transfer of the pupils to
the high school will render necessary be
retained; that the course in manual
training work be merely made high
school course the same as all other high
school courses, and that hereafter no
students be admitted to this department
OF the high school until they have COM
pleted the work of the eighth grade
We also recommend that instruction
IN shorthand and typewriting be intro
duced into the high school course.
We recommend that the fourth be
the highest grade continued in the IIar-.
rlSon, Hawthorne and Smith schools,
and that the Fifth be the highest grade
continued in the Grant, Douglas aud
Lafayette schools.
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