St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-30


place the responsibility for them where
it belongs, with those who have refused
10 make the necessary appropriation.
All that can be done. within the law, by
the board, is to ma e such changes in
the system of the schools as
Promise to BE Least Harmful.
Those who suffer from them-and
every one of them will cause suffering
and harm-are reminded that the board
acts in this matter of necessity. and that
it will restore what has been sacrificed
whenever the funds are provided.
In considering ways and means of
cutting our next years expenditures
$4,000 below our estimates, we reach
the following conclusions:
l. Our schedule of salaries was al
ready fixed, and teachers were engaged
under it, as provided by law, before the
estimates were reduced. We can, there
fore, do no more than stop the increase
of salaries provided for in the schedule,
to compensate increased length of serv
| ice and efficiency. If no teacher in the
schools who is paid sos per month or
more should receive salary greater
| than last year it would reduce the sal
| airy list by 81, $40.
2. The branch high school system is
| still in the experimental stage. Pend
would result in a net saving of $1,000 ii
| the schools were discontinued. BY
! leaving untitled an existing vacancy in
| the corps of instructors at the Central
| High school, and diScOunting the Serv-
ices of a teacher in drawing now en-
ployed ON holt time, total saving of
| 81, 15e can be affected in the high school
| department.
3. The night schools are too valuable
| to Industrious and worthy working peO-
| pie to be cut off entirely. But they can
be consolidated and limited so as to re-
| duce their estimated cost by IS, 900.
4. A saving of 81, 200 can be made on
the amount required for the kindergar-
| tens, without discOntinulng any hereto
| fore ordered by the board.
| 5. If the teaching Of German is dis
continued in all grades below the sew
| enth, it will reduce the salary list SILL.
600. Such change. as has been
stated, can be made only regret
| fully, and we decline the reSpon-
sibility therefor. In this, as
is understood and promised that ali of
| the educational advantages taken from
our system will be restored whenever
the people shall direct their representa-
tive in the council to supply the neces-
sary funds from a treasury that shows
| permanent surplus.
6. The board requested $4,000 for
new teachers next year. These are
needed to provide for the increased at
tendance expected. The rule has bee n
to employ, on the average, one teacher
for each forty pupils, and this is prob
ably the limit for the highest efficiency.
But it will be necessary now to raise the
number of pupils to forty-five or fifty,
as experience may decide, so that most
of the new teachers may be dispensed
with, and that the present force may be
still further reduced by leaving vacan-
cles. No employee to whom
Its Faith Has Been Pledged
need be left without place; while. by
leaving the remaining vacancies un-
| filled and making no new appointments
as additional designations occur, total
saving of $4,000 in teachers salaries can
be accomplished.
A recapitulatiOn shows the following
possible reductions in the total of teach
ers' salaries to comply with the ordi-
nance of the city council:
| Schedule advances. Observation-Disclosures. S., 800
| High school department. 4,150
| N!ght SCHOOLS. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 3,UUO
HlndergartenS. .......... ............. 1,0o0
| New teachers. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1900
| Vacancies at least " 5000
Total reduction. SIS, O7o
The ordinance of the city council re-
quires also reduction of $1,000 in the
amount to be paid to other employees of
the board. The only place in which a
reduction of salaries seems to be JUST.
fled by the records is in the case of
janitors and other employees. The
total pay roll of these employees
was more than $500 higher In
July, 1892, than in July, 1891. We be-
| lleve that considerably more than the
$1,000 mentioned can be saved here with
out serious injustice or injury to the
care of the schools. TO carry out the
changes enumerated and explained
above, your committee recommends the
adoption of the following resolutions, all
to take effect from date:
Resolved. by the board of school in
Spectors of the city of st. Paul:
l. That all advances in teachers sal
aries. according TO the present sched-
ule, be suspended for the year begin
ming Sept. l. 1892; provided, that this
shall apply only to salaries exceeding
s62 per month.
2. That the branch high school be
discontinued. and that such reductions
be made in the salary list of the Central
High school. as pointed out hereinbe-
lOJ Z, as Will cllCCG tOtdl
of not less than 81, $50 in the high
school salary list.
3. That no change shall be so con-
strued as to reduce the salary of any
principal below the amount received
last year.
4. That no increase shall in any case
accrue to the salary of any principal by
reason OF the addition to his building OF
kindergarten room.
5. That the estimated expenditure
for night schools be reduced for the en-
suing year from $4,000 to $1,000.
6. That the estimated expenditure
for kindergartens during the ensuing
year be reduced by 1000.
Z. That the estimated expenditure
for new teachers for the ensuing year
be reduced from S16,500 to $1,000.
8. That instruction IN the German
language be discontinued in all the
schools in rooms
Below the seventh Grade.
and that the special teachers of German
be paid the schedule grammar salary for
teachers of English. and the assistant
teachers of German be paid the schedule
intermediate salary for teachers of En-
glish instead of the salaries hitherto re-
ceived.
g. That the superintendent of schools
be directed to appoint at once to vacan.
cies now existing in the corps of teach.
ers of English all teachers of German
not needed for the work of the seventh
and eighth grades; and that no new
appointments shall be made thereafter,
as designations occur, until the net re-
duction of salaries by reason of such va
cations shall amount to $4,000; pupils
being left uncared for being provided
for by increasing the number allotted
to each teacher from forty to forty-five
or more, as may be necessary.
10. That all assistant janitors in the
employ of the board, except the assist
ant janitor at the high school building.
be discharged.
II. That all firemen in the employ OF
the board, except at the high school