The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-29
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
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desirable one that can be imagined. l, believe it Is the best which is feasible or practicable at the present time with the present condition of the finances of the district.
 Grade 1 (first half), maximum $625, increase $25 for each teacher.
 Grade (second half), maximum $500, increase $20 to $50 for some teachers.
 Grade 2, maximum $500, increase $50 to $50 for each teacher.
 Grade B. maximum $500, increase SID or $20 for some teachers.
 Grade 4, maximum $550, increase $5 or $20 for some teachers, decrease $1O for latter part of grade. ....
 Grade 5, maximum $500, increase SEQ for some teachers, decrease $2O for lat ter part of grade.
 Grade 6, maximum S64O, increase $10 for some teachers, decrease S10 for lat ter part of grade.
 Grade T, maximum $7OO, increase $25 for some teachers,
 Grade 8, maximum S750.
 This schedule involves a total increase of approximately s2600. Of course only a part of this recommendation, 1nvolv- ing less amount than $2,600, could be adopted.
 I would recommend that the mini mum salary at which teachers begin service remain at as present. viz. $500.
 Whether the financial condition of the district warrants these changes or not is a matter for your honorable body to determine.
 realize that no salary list that can be proposed will be exactly in justice to all teachers. It is a well known fact that one teacher in a grade will do much better work and render far high CT service to the community and to the children than another teacher, and yet the two receive the same salary. The alternative is to pay teachers according to what the board of education deems them to be worth, judging each case on its own individual merits.
 The schedule which is proposed es- tablishes seven maximums. l believe it would be we'll if these maximums could be reduced to three or four, but I do not see how this can be done at the present time.
 The schedule which is proposed, while 1t indicates, a slight increase of salaries in several grades, would establish a lower rate of average salary in New Haven than in other New England cit ies of equal size.
 The adoption of the proposed sched- ule would mean, if followed literally, a decrease in salaries for some teachers. For example-in the fifth grade the average salary proposed is $500. The present schedule establishes salary of $5S0 for the beginning of the fifth grade, $500 for 5a grade, and s620 for 5b grade. Tn order to get rid of these subtle dis functions, salary of $500 is proposed for each of these which involves an increase of S20 for one-third of the teachers in the grade, the same salary as at present received for 5a grade teachers and a decrease of $20 for 5b grade teachers. It is my recommends tion that teachers who are now teach ing in 5b grade at @ salary of $620, be continued at the present salaries, and therefore that an exception be made in their cases; and this recommendation should apply in a corresponding way tc all grades. But as new teachers come into the corps, their salaries should stop at the maximum of the grade $60o
 I have not deemed 1t advisable at this time to make any recommendations relative to the salaries of Kindergarten teachers.