The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-17
PAY OF TEACHERS FIXED
SCHOOL BOARD SPECIAL COM
MITTEE EQUALIzES SCALE

| MITTEE EQUALIZES SCALE
1t Is Believed That the Board Will
Be Able to Get Through the Year
Without a Serious Deficit-There
Will Be No Serious Cut I'm the
Salaries Of the Graded Teach
ers.
Instead Of having their salaries cut.
the graded school teachers in the ST.
Paul public schools will receive an in
crease in salary during the next year,
corresponding in amount to what they
would receive if the schedule of 1894
was still in effect. The special COM
mittee of the school board met yester-
day and decided to recommend to the
board that all salaries be placed on a
more equitable basis.
The new schedule gives those teach
ers who have been teaching for the
maximum length Of time in the seventh
and eighth grades a salary of $67.50,
and the intermediate grade instructors
will get maximum of $3.50, and all
who have taught short of the maxi
mum limit will receive an increase Of
IS per month this year.
This much the committee accom-
plished, but, when it CAME to the SAL
aries of the principals, the committee
found itself facing a more perplexing
question. There is considerable discrep-
ancy in the amounts paid the various
principals throughout the city, and, as
one Of the methods Of intrenchment, 1t
was at first proposed to- cut the sala-
ries Of these officers, and several were
reduced. but 1T is not unlikely that all
will be put back at the old figures to-
day, with very few exceptions, and
the board will look in another direction
to practice economy.
The committee fixed up the schedule
OF graded teachers salaries, but the
question as it related to the principals
salaries was left until today, when the
committee will meet an hour before the
regular meeting Of the board and en-
deavor to agree on a schedule for prin-
cipals.
In addition to the schedule arranged
for the intermediate and the higher
teachers, the committee also arranged
a scale to apply in the elementary de-
partments. First primary teachers will
receive $50 per month, and kindergarten
supervisors will be paid the same sal
airy. The salary of kindergarten as
sistants was placed at $40 per month.
To give all the teachers the salaries
provided for the schedule to be recon-
mended by the committee, the board
will require just $4,000 over and above
the amount made available for this
purpose by the city council The
board, however, expects to scrape
this amount together by practicing
strict economy in all branches Already
the board has saved nearly $4,000 by
| doing away with the positions of as
sistant superintendent and assistant
secretary and several other corners
have been Topped off which brings the
amount which is still needed to- meet
/ the deficit down to about $4,000. The
| board in making up the budget sent
to the mayor asked for an amount
sufficient to enable them to make the
proposed schedule increase.
I The board decided to employ all
| teachers by the month for the COM
ing year. President Zimmerman
| thought that school could be main
tanned for the full forty weeks by pay
| ing the teachers for thirty-eiSht
| weeks, counting out two weeks vaca-
| ton.
! Inspector McGill favored shortening
| the school year by week or so, but
was decidedly opposed to making any
| reductions in the principals salaries.
supt Smith has favored from the
| first keeping the schools open for
| the full forty weeks, but looking after
| the small ends, and in that way he
/ believes the deficit will be easily met.
| Inspector Zimmerman thought if the
| schools were opened on Sept. 10 and
| closed on June the board would ac-
| compliSh it's end, and at the same
! time work no hardship in any direc-
| ton.
The board took up the list Of prin-
| cipals and teachers receiving over
| 81 900 per year. The entire salary list
| of the Central high school was equal
| lied, and the board found after the
| process it had saved just So per year.
Mr.. Smith stated that he thought the
| board should make no general reduc-
| ton in the salaries of the staff at the
| Central because of the excellent work
| done by the teachers and their long
| terms of service. One was reduced
! from $11O to $100; three were reduced
| from $120 to S1o0; one, from sos to
| $500; one increased from $65 to $50
| one from $95 to $500; one from $50 to
! 500; one from $75 to $780,; ONE from
| sos to $780, and one from $40 to $50 per
| month.
The reductions in salaries are &C
| counted for by the inequality of the
| salaries paid the teachers in the Cen
| trail high school.
ton of salaries of eight ten room prin-
| cipals drawing $115 per month to- $110,
| and six principals receiving $140 to
! $130. This, however, was left I'M abey-
| ance until the meeting today. The
! committee will doubtless recommend
that the salaries Of the principals be
|; left just where they were.
T The salary Of Prof ]. D. Bond was
I fixed at $1,000 per year, as principal
/ Of the Madison and he was given spe-
/ ciaf duties in assisting the superin-
/ tendent, with an additional salary Of
i 5000 per year.
/ Prior to 1894 teachers in the ST. Paul
| rarYh1 10 .oIr L. ~k@
| of $45 and $50 per month, according
/ to the grade. Under the old schedule
which was readopted yesterday for
| next year, every year an advance CT
/ IS per month was given until the
/ maximum Of $75 and $50 was reached.
|! Since 1894 none of the teachers en-
/ ployed by the city have received this
/ schedule increase, and some Of them
will get an advance of $40 per month
in salary by the action of the COM
/ mittee yesterday.