The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-14
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
ROUTINE BUSINESS TRANSACTED AT
 LAST NIGHTS MEETING.

New System of Promotion in Hillhouse
 High School-Salaries of JAnitors of
 Night schools-New Night School Teach
 CTS Appointed-Nam for the New School
 Building DIscussed-other Business.
 A regular meeting of the board of education was held last evening at the board rooms on Center street. Messrs, Asher, Morgan, Farnsworth, o'Con- nor, Betts, Hooker and Moran and Su- perintendent Kendall being present. Nothing but routine business was transacted. MT. Moran of the commit tee on schools reported for that com mittee that another room had been opened at the Cedar street school and recommended that Miss Annie Hintz be transferred from the position of eX- tra teacher in the Eaton school and put In charge of this room. It was further recommended that Miss Cath erine Dargon be transferred from the position of substitute teacher in the
 
 that the Citizens catechism be put upon the list of text books; that Miss Annie s. Planter be transferred from the substitute list to the position of as- sistant teacher in rooms and ? of the Ferry school The recommendations were all adopted with the exception of the one relating to text books, which was laid on the table, according to the rules of the board. The committee fur ther reported that a new room had been opened in the Hamilton street school in order to accommodate the primary chill dren of that school MT. Munson of the committee on spe- cial instruction reported that the fol- lowing rules relative to the promotion of pupils have been adopted in the Hill house high school; that the present | system of annual examinations be changed as follows: That all pupils be examined in the one subject selected by l the principal each term, term examina- 1 tions in other subjects to be held at the option of the teacher or principal; that | tests be given as often as once a month but not oftener than once a week, all l tests to be given without previous mo- tice; that all tests and other examina- | tions be held during regular recitation ] time so that school work shall not be l interfered with; that the time for a 1 test be one recitation period, and the time for any other examination be not more than two periods; these periods may be upon the same day at the op- tion of the teacher provided they do 1 ipto tho otI, pf r1oa school; that the months record be made up from the daily work and test in such a way as to allow the daily work to have weight in about the ratio of 2-1, and that teachers to accomplish this keep as careful a record of daily work as can be made without marking slavishly during recitation time, the term examination to have weight with 1 the months of that term in ratio of 3-1; that promotions be made upon, the rec ommendation of the teacher with tine 1 sanction of the principal pupils not satisfied with that decision may have a written examination.
 l The committee recommended the ap- pointment of George A. Booth as in structor in the advanced evening school
 
 at $1.50, Miss Lulu Ware at $1.50, Mrs. 1 A. J. Dickernan as teacher in the Hamilton street evening school at $t50, A. c. Reed in Strong evening school at $1.50, w. G. Rowe in Washington eve ming school $15O, H. J. Wyckoff in 1 Hillhouse at $t.50, Miss Marie Feucht- wanger at $150, Siegfried Aal at $1.5O, Myron Schermerhorn at $1.5O. these ap- pointments being made necessary by l the largely increased attendance at tbe evening schools.
 1 The committee also recommended that Phillips & Fishers Geometry be | added to the list of Hillhouse high schools text books and that Fuller's l Illustrated Primer be adopted for use 1 in the evening schools; that the salary of F. J. Brown principal of the elemen- tary school, be increased from $3 to $3.50 per night, to date from the begin ming of the night schools, October 26
 The committee announced that Mrs. Lucretia Dayton, teacher of drawing, clay modelling and wood carving. wish ed to be relieved of part of her work. It was therefore recommended that Mrs Dayton be employed one-third of | the llIle as teacher III the BOdrUndn school at the rate of $500 per year, and that Miss Emma R. Wright be em- ployed on full time as teacher of draw ing in the school at the rate of $500 per year, to date from December 1. The report was accepted and adopted l MT. Connor of the committee on school buildings, reported that the com mittee recommended that the janitors of the evening schools be paid as fol- lows: Hillhouse, $2 per night; Hamil- ton school 75 cents; Whiting street 50 cents; Cedar street, $1; Strong school, 1 75 cents; Washington school, 75 cents; Boardman, 50 cents for the cook room and 30 cents for the other rooms except those on the top floor, and 50 cents for these in addition; engineer of Board man, S1. <
 The committee also recommended that the salary of the jantor of the Lloyd street school be increased $50 per year from November l, this increase being made necessary on account of the opening of the rooms in the second sto- | ny Of 10 annoy 61lo of rxyI,ioI ies ,rcaIJ