The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-05
He HAS A WAY OUT
AID. DeNAHoWER's PLAN TO SOLVE
THE SCHOOL BOARDS
PUZZLE.
1857 S-s@.: n-risr7
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TO SAVE $4,000 A YEAR.
BY THE CUTTING OFF OF FANCY
FIXTURES AND REDUCING
SALARIES.
THIS WOULD LEAVE A BALANCE
Of $4,000 Instead of the Present
Shortage of About 100000,
A Marked Change.
TO SAVE sI23,ooo A YEAR.
THIS WOULD LEAVE A BALANCE

At the next meeting of the school
board, as well as at the conference Of
the ways and means committee, Aid.
DonahoWer will present a plan which
it's author believes solves perfectly the
dilemma in which the city and the
school board now finds itself. The
theory Of the new plan is that each
teacher ought to be able to care for
fifty pupils, and on this basis there
would be only 1852 of them as against
ATS now in thresholds, INSTRUMENTATION
the list of fofty-one principals, super
visors, ETC., IN switch great inroads
could be made. The plan which Aid.
Donahower will present, and which he
and N. P. Langford have worked out
will provide, in addition to this reduc-
ton in the teaching staff, for the dis
charge of the eight special teachers and
three supervisors and the closing of the
teachers training school and manual
training schools.
In addition cut of 10 per cent on
the salaries of the principals and is
per cent on the teachers is proposed.
which, with the other changes sug-
gested, will make a total saving per
annum of $123,390, or s22,6O1 more than
the deficit which now confronts the
board.
The details of the proposed plan are
summarized in the following statement,
which will be submitted as above stat
ed
Ma valuation ~ 7Ss 6S ss
Difference Observation-Disclosures. s29, 6sO, GAL
The shortage to be met by retrench-
ment is therefore 3R mills on $780,
$50, 941, which is S103, 70S
Excess of state apport.onment over
last year $3.50. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
Exact shortage to be met . 800. 7Os
Average daily attendance in January, 1897,
1901 ,,,- se
Fifty scholars per teacher will require 1862
teachers, while there are now employed:
Principals .............. so
Principal teachers Observation-Disclosures. IL
Special teachers ........... ..................
Supervisors 80. Observation-Disclosures.
High grade teachers Observation-Disclosures. 81
Kindergartens ...... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 40
Grade teachers ........................... 1868
Total .......... ........................51
Of which principals special teachers and
supervisors comprise Al, leaving an actual
teaching force of Ats.
pervisors can be dispensed with, and, fgur-
ing on the others, 1t shows the requirements
to be:
Teachers needed at fifty scholars each =. :. 1862
Allow thirty extra in cases where full
number of fifty are not available. :. ..... 30
Closing teachers training school, dis
Closing manual training school, dis :.
missed ................ .-..,........- IL
At present employed Observation-Disclosures AIS
13 3vna&i jenM -
Excess Of teachers over all possible
needs 7i..,. Ga
Amounts to Be Saved -f'T 49,
Teachers training school, 1 principal
teachers, cost OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $500
Manual training school, principal,
IL teachers, cost ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 13,5OO
Sixty-four teachers, average salary
Teachers employed, 1892 average sal
Is per cent cent on this sum will save. 1896
engineers, salaries 81. 500 ............ 4,7s5
Twenty principals average salaries,
81 ,224), cut of 10 per cent .............. 244S
Three supervisors unnecessary 4C00
Eight special teachers formerly super
visors) unnecessary neutrality-suspicious.. S4OO
Total saving - ............ s123, 500
Excess of saving over shortage, so COL.
The school board is still meeting nightly
to devise way out of its dilemma.