The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
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PLANNING A
b. NEW SCHEME
5 School Districts Will Be
:. :. Gerrymandered to
s. !. S. Rainey.
Salaries WILL BE REiDJuSTED.
THE Mission High School to Be
f: IF. a Soft Place for a
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SUPERINTENDENT WEBSTER TALKS.
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Mothers of Pupils to Hold an Indig-
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/: r.. paring>tO Fight.
SUPERINTENDENT WEBSTER TALKS.
Mothers of Pupils to Hold an Indig-
:. :. nation Meeting-Mitohell Pre-
pairing to Fight.

There is q new scheme being Matched by
tine. r'Solid Nine" of tie Board of School
Directors. Failing in their atten pt to
provide places as teachers for some sixty
or more of the friends Of Boss Rainey,
these directors now propose to gerry man.
der the school districts of the City in the
interest of some favorite principals and
their friends.
They do not call it by this name, OF
course. On the records of the doings of
the board it appears that there is urgent
need that the City be redistricted, and a
resolution to that effect was adopted at
the last regular meeting. The work is al
lotted to the mem Ders of the committee
on rules and Deputy Superintendent of
Schools Stone. Now, as it so happens. the
presiding sages of this particular commit
tee are DR.. Raglan and DR.. Drucker, the
two>principal lleutenants OF Ralney IN the
board, consequently the rank and HE OF
the teachers view the prospective redlvld-
ing.of the City into school districts with
peculiar interest.
Along with this gerrymandering scheme
comes plan to grade the schools accord
ing to their average attendance. and the
salaries OF the principals and vice prln-
cipals accordingly. This is where the
chief beauty of the whole affair lies.
Under the skillful maneuvering of Raglan
and Drucker there is likely to be some
startling reductions in the mum Der OF
pupils attending some schools with q
corresponding increase in others. The re-
dfstrictiug plan in itself would be harm
less affair without the regarding prospect.
This last thought emanates tEom the
brain of Director Gallagher, who is Ra-
gan s man Friday. The whole proposition
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and Rainev himself has declared that 1t
Will act as tonic'for the school system Of
the City. With such Endorsements as
these it seems strange that the teachers
should see anything in the matter to be
suspicious.
The fact remains, however, that they do
not like the prospect at all. The resolu-
ton provides that the work shall be COM
pleted by August 8. 1t was this r'solu-
ton which Director Gallagher invoked at
Saturday. nights meeting to defeat the
adoption OF the salary schedule. This
schedule was identical with that OF the
past year and was satisfactory to both
principals and teachers. On the first
vote il was adopted, but it was not until
Director Raglan, after securing recon
sideration. attempted to amend it by max
ing one or two increases that the true
nature of the regarding scheme was made
public Gallagher in his anxiety 20 serve
Ragan's interest raised the point that the
schedule had not been drawn in conform
ity with the rules recently passed by the
new board.
The chief feature of these rules en-
bodies the plan of regarding the school
and fixing the salaries OF the principals
and vice-principals according to the aver
age daily attendance. Here tofore the
schools have been graded, especially in
the primary class, according to the. num-
4 "a. L.
The HYDE board and met with the ap-
prevail of the entire School Department at