The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-27
MAY CLOSE HIGH SCHOOLS
IMPORTANT MEETING OF BOARD
OF EDUCATION.
@6, 1871 80 Short of Necessary Amount to
Conduct Public Schools the Next Year
VIII Close Hillhouse and Boardman
Rather than Reduce Teachers Salaries
Saving in Supervising Department.

| Rather than Reduce Teachers Salaries
| Saving in Supervising Department.
There is a probability that either the
| high school or the Boardman Manual
Training school will be closed for a part
of the next school year. At the meeting
of the board of education last evening
it was the opinion of the members that
this would have to be done unless SONS
other way of meeting the deficiency IN
the expense account occurred. After
the salaries of the teachers for next
year had been approved by the board
it was shown that the total list amount-
ed to $104,SSS.75. AS only $100,25685 Of
the appropriation is available deficit
is left Of $4,13190. Adding to this $4,000
as the expense of conducting the night
schools for seventy-five nights, as Is re-
quired by law, the total deficiency to be
met is $6,13190. This, as Is stated In
the report of the committee on schools.
must be met by deducting from the ex-s
penses of the two high schools. The
report Of this committee Is a plain and
comprehensive statement of the exist
ing condition of affairs. After stating
that in view of the condition Of the
finances Of the board they had been
guided by the strictest economy in thei1.
recommendations for salaries they
make the following statement:
There are several hundred more chill.
dren in the schools this year than last.
Additional pupils mean additional ex
pense. The amount of money at the
disposal of the board for teachers sal
aries, however, is the same as last year, v
although there are 557 more children In
school and no more money for the sal
aries of teachers. Curtailment Of ex-
pehses is therefore a necessity. The
committee feel that there should be no.
curtailment Of the work Of the gram
mar schools, although all reasonable
economies should Of course be practiced
which would not sacrifice the interests
of the children. The committee feel that
after the grammar schools have been
taken care of, then the two high schools
should follow and the community be-
given as good high school or schools
as the money left from the grammar
schools will allow.
With this principle in mind they have
decided to discontinue one Of the teact-
ers or supervisors of sewing, to discon-
tinue part Of the grammar school
woodwork or manual training for boys
and to reduce the expenses for supervi-
sion of drawing from $3.50 to $1,800.
This means net saving Of $2,400 In ex-
penses. The committee have authorized
the superintendent to employ a super
visor or supervisors of drawing to an
amount not to exceed $1,000 in salaries,
The committee wish to say that they
have not recommended any increases IN
the salaries of supervising principals,
although they believe that in some cases
the supervising principals are reasona-
bly, entitled to the increases, that their
have been eminently satisfac-
tory and the maximum salaries of their
positions are $2,5O0 each. The commit
tee have decided not to recommend the
increases entirely for motives of econ
omy The committee further wish It to
be a matter of record that this failure
increase their salaries should by no
means act as precedent in keeping the
salaries where they are The commits
tee find that after the grammar schools
have been "taken care of" and rea-
sonable amount set apart for night
schools, which the laws OF the state
oblige us to maintain, the funds at the
disposal of the board are not sufnclenC
To maitain the Hillhouse high school
and the Boardman Manual Training
nigh school for the entire fall term.
The committee regret the condition of
affairs but rather than reduce the sal
aries Of teachers in either grammar Or
high schools the committee believe II
would be better to open the high
schools with the other schools and close
them whenever it would be necessary
FOR lack of funds. We think this time
IF closing would be in the latter part
IF November. OF course the schools
would reopen again in January and
continue uninterruptedly until July 1.
The period of suspension would be
therefore, six weeks or less. The COM
nittee, however, hope that the board
If finance may see its way to transfer
enough money from the permanent inn
fund to current expenses.
Such a transfer would not add to the
lmount expended for schools. It
would enable the board of education to
seep the two high schools in session
throughout the fall term.
In view of the situation the commits
ZEE recommend that the following stip-
llation be inserted in the contracts
With high school teachers: The board
# education reserves the right, how
,ver to relieve from service any one
n all the teachers in the high schools
or the period between November Is,
$685. and January 1, 1900, or for any
,art of said period, without payment
# salary or salaries during the period
II suspension.
The committee make the statement
hat owing to the fact that the senior
lass records at the New Haven Nor
nal school are not yet complete that no
'oung women from this school are rec
for appointment at this
Meeting. The appointments from this
ource of our supply of teachers will
AXE place at a future meeting.
This closed the report which was ap-
roved by the board The following
esignations were then announced to
AXE effect at the close of the present
chool year: Dr. Frank Strong, DR..
Albert S. White, Alfred S. Kedzie.
Toward S. Brinton and Nina G. Hol-
80, tho IIi1Iho,,co H;ern ,olao1.