The San Francisco call., 1898-11-21
Samples of the School
 Boards Work.
"sTUFFED" UNASSIGNED LIST
TEACHERS DREW SALARY WITH
 OUT EARNING IT.
Grand Jury Threatens to Lock Up the Books of the Department Unless Its Experts Are Left
 in Peace.

Scandals are developing in the Board of
 Education almost too fast for the Grand
 Jury to keep track of them. Turn which way they may, the Investigators are con- fronted with some fresh evidence or wrongdoing on the part of the board that increases the total of its misdoings. Each
 day that the investigation proceeds, not one, but many, new forms of villatny are discovered, and the end is not in sight.
 For many months 1t has been openly
 asserted that not even the teachers nave
 escaped, and that the "business men or the board had carried their crooked work into that branch of the department. The alleged sale of positions was given con-
 siderable ventilation during the Kilpat- rick-Stanton expose several months ago, but the board succeeded in heading on a complete inquiry into the charges at that
 time; it is not going to be as successful now, however.
 Then there is the old, old charge of fa- voritism, which is to be gone into thor
 oughly, and in this connection will come an inquiry into the reasons that brought
 the board to maintain such an enormous
 unassigned and substitute list. At the
 present time there are something like
 thirty unassigned and twenty substitute
 teachers in the department, but notWlth- standing this fact, more appointments are
 steadily being made.
 posed of two classes, the largest number
 being teachers who are no longer compe-
 tent to fill positions, but are allowed to
 draw their regular pay, ranging from S9o
 to S79 for teachers and more for prlnclpais
 and vice-principals. The second class is
 composed of a few pets of the board who
 are desirous of drawing pay without the necessity of earning it, so they are With
 drawn from their classes and become burden on the city While other teacherS
 In tn this second division may be rated
 Miss O'Brien, sister-in-law of Director
 Ragan. Some months ago Miss O. Brien, then a teacher in the night school, was relieved and placed on the substitute hsl
 at her own request. since then sne nds n1Ss
 drawn $50 @ moHth salary. Miss smith IS another teacher who wanted to take rest, and so had herselI appointed Io tue unassigned list. ~
 The Substitute teachers are paid $40 a month, work or no work, ana are sup posed to hold themselves in readiness to take a regular teachers place at a mo- ment's notice. It is the rule that the un- assigned list shall be exhausted before the substitutes are called upon, but 1t is daily violated on the plea that some of the un- assigned teachers are Superannuated. Whether that excuse is given Tor not ,in- m terrupting the permanent picnic or MISS O'Brien, Miss Smith and others IS not known. as... teachers are thus drawing salary from the city, although there is no necessity TOT maintaining a reserve list Of more than 1 fifteen. OnaSSlRnSu dIlO SuDSibuISo oAS uuired. under the rules, to report at the l office of the secretary for assignment ! l every morning at o'clock, but IL IS salo the favorites observe this rule by tele- ] phoning to the office and leaving their ad- l dresses so they can be found should an ! emergency arise whereby their presence is required. IL
 These are some of the features of the | appointment of teachers that will receive 1 due consideration at the hands or the
 It may be stated here that the experts ! employed by the Grand Jury are having anything but an easy time of it in tneir search for truth. Last Friday MT Nil patrick was obliged to call upon Graham, the Building and Grounds Committee bookkeeper, for stub book to enable hlIn
 to trace certain bills. Graham gave up the book reluctantly although ne nad ho 10 further use for it. and kflpatrick LOOK It to the secretarys office. Later Tn the oay while Kilpatrick was temporarily apSenS from the room, Graham took the DOCK ana carried 1t back to the storeroom hiIpaLL- rick reported the occurrence to D. Si Irving, foreman of the Grand Jury, ana that official immediately sent word out to the Board of Education that the expert
 was to have every book and paper ne
 needed placed at his free disposal, ana II II any further attempt was made to DOCK his work all the books would be removed to the Grand Jury room and locked, up un- iii the Investigation was concluded.