The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-29
THE DIRECTORS
HOLD ANOTHER
SECRET SESSION
Discussing the Text
books.
NOT MANY CHANGES MADE
HEAD WAS NOT CONSULTED ON
JANITORS.
He Made Complaint and an Interest
ing Report Was Referred
Back for Consid-
Grafton.
NOT MANY CHANGES MADE
HEAD WAS NOT CONSULTED ON
JANITORS.

The Board of Education hid its face
again last evening and discussed text
books behind closed doors Textbooks
were what caused a good part of the
scandal in the administration of the last
board. The executive session was not
called without a protest from Director
Head, however, but the board preferred
secrecy and sought it in adjoining
room.
When the motion to discuss the text
books in committee of the whole was
made by Stow, Head grew suspicious and
demanded to know whether the conven-
ton of the committee of the whole would
be secret. President Bergerot SAID ne
could not guess at the intentions of the
board. Head declared the subject of text
books was a most important one, and one
in which every parent had an interest,
and he believed the matter should be dis
cussed in public. The motion to go into
committee of the whole prevailed, now,
ever, Head was called to the chair, and
then Bergerot himself made the motion
to go into executive session.
Head got in another protest on the re,
Is member of the committee, and when
he found a report had been submitted ne
got up and declared there had been no
meeting of the committee, for he had
never been notified. The names of Cole
and Kemp were signed to the report, but
Cole, the committee chairman, was forced
and SO the report was sent back to the
committee until it could be presented in
proper form. The report was as folloWs'
Your Committee on Jantors respectfully Mps
T HeInes Tse ''g Mrs. j. M Murphy Bernai
School; Mrs NJ. McClellan; vice Mrs MIS-, 4 H. Hun N
Manning Hancock School; Mrs. Small vice
Mrs. H Heaphy, Rincon School; Mrs Bacon.
vice Mrs M Murphy Hamiitq Horace sshoo Mann
School.
The Finance Committee recommended
that all demands for June be allowed ana
Quoted from January demands and sal
aries be also allowed. The recommends
tons We're adopted. oo
Leave of absence from July 81, 1899; to
August 49, 1899 was granted Miss Lillian
O'Neil of the Peabody School
Miss Caroline NJ. Sisson made appli-
cation to be placed on the pension ron,
on Buildings and Grounds, it was DECIDED
to grant the use of the school lot on san
Bruno avenue. near Twenty-fl1th street
to the city for Fire Department pur-
on recommendation of the Committee
on Salaries, the salary OF Miss r; M; No
amina ton, was fixed at $37 90 a month
from July l, 1889 The salary is the same
as heretofore.
mended the granting of the petition of
Mrs NJ. E. Caldwell to be placed on the
retired list, with the understanding, how
ever, that the board would in no way be
responsible for any money she. might
claim under the annuity fund act.
The following were granted grammar
graduation from the San Francisco Nor
NAL School: Miss Joanna Zelinsky, Miss
Harriet V. Rooney and Miss Florence c..
Sankey of the class of 1897, and Miss
Mabel A Newman of the class of 1898.
The grammar grade certificates of Miss
Elizabeth Dennis, Miss Ellen R. Downey,
cent and Mrs. Josephine Wickstrom were
renewed.
The following were recommended to the
State Board Of Examination for life di-
Corlett, Miss Theresa E. Derham and Miss
One hundred graduates of the San Fran
cisco Normal School. class of 1899. were
granted grammar grade certificates.
A protest from Brown & Power
against the awarding of the ink and pa
referred to the Committee on Supplies
Bids for school books for the coming
year were received from Potter, Putnam
& Co; d. c. Heath & Co; Educational
Company; Prang Educational Company;
Silver. Burdett & Co.; Butler, Sheldon &
Co.; Maynard, Merrill & Co., and CHM &
Co.
These bids were taken up under the
head of new business and We're considered
in executive session. The result was these
resolutions:
Whereas, There is almost unanimity of opin-
ion among the teachers and principals and
changes in text books now in use in the de-
partment; and whereas. the books now in use
are satisfactory. Therefore be it
Resolved That no change in the system OF
music books, business forms, mental arithmetic
bookkeeping literature in use, with the
exception OF select American classics, be made
Resolved, That the following schoolbooks in
French be recommended to the Superintendent
for use in the cosmopolitan schools, and those
books only: 'Keebel's Elementary French,
Grammar" ''Hotchkiss LIE Premier Livre de
Franchise" "Guyan's aimee Preparatone de
Lecture
That for the purpose of as textbook
in the Public School Department copies OF
Pages Heart Culture be distributed only 10
the teachers of the department.
That the Prang system of drawing now in