The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-10


man school, We estimate that there
will nearly two hundred more pupils in
the Boardman school next September
than there are at present
For the last five years the average
annual increase in the average number
of children registered IN the schools has
been nearly 400 The average annual
increase in the number of teachers has
been ten; the average annual increase
in the number of school rooms has been
ten. From present indications it seems
that the increase next year will not be
quite as large as the average for the
last five years.
There is no place in New England
where teachers begin their work at
such a low salary az $500 per annum
and New Haven would not be able to
employ teachers at that rate We're 1t
not for the provision in the rules that
salaries would be increased $50 year
until the maximum was reached. I'm
der this rule a teacher must work at
least four years before she reaches a
salary of $500 per annum, sum which
you gentlemen must acknowledge is
not more than living wages.
SLNSS IN
pense for teachers salaries Of between
$500 and $4,000 year on account OF
these Increases, 1t is a fact that our an
nual salary list would be much larger
if it We're not for the provision which
makes these increases necessary. There
are in the schools below the high
schools 329 principals and teachers, not
including teachers in ungraded rooms,
whose salaries amount to $1S5,32O, or
this number 1928 received $500 or less per
annum, 10S receive between $500 and
$500 per annum, seyenty-one receive be-
tween 5000 and 500 per annum and
twenty-five from $500 to $1,000 per an
mum.
The number of teachers in each grade
and the maximum salary for each
grade is as follows:
Six principals a $1,000 per annum.
Forty-five teachers, grade l, first half,
at $500 per anum
Twenty-three teachers, grade l, sec
ond half, at $500 per annum.
Forty-one teachers, grade 2, at $500
per annunl.
Forty-four teachers, grade 8, at $500
per annun.
Forty-fve teachers, grade 4, at $3.50
per annum.
Thirty-eight teachers, grade 5, at $500
per annum.
Thirty-four teachers, grade 6, at $64O
per annun.
Twelve teachers, grade Z. first half,
s675 per annum.
Twenty teachers grade 7, second
half, at $500 per annum.
Twenty-one teachers, grade s, at $3.50
per anum.
If all the above teachers were paid
maximum salaries the cost would be
s2O1, IT'S.
Evening Schools.
The salaries paid teachers in the
evening schools for the school year
1S99-1900 was 1884, So 1t is proposed
to maintain substantially the came
schools next year. There may be an
increase In the attendance necessitatlng
the employment of additional teachers,
but in the absence of any positive
knowledge Of this we have asked for
$4,000
AS the state pays $2.25 per pupil for
the average number registered IN the
evening schools, the city Will receive
about $1,000, making the net cost to the
city $4,000. The amount received this
year from the state was $96325.
A communication was received at
last nights meeting from the Woman's
School association, asking If the board
would frame the pictures purchased at
the art exhibit last spring and have
them put up in the different rooms
throughout the schools in the city.
There are eighty-nine Of the pictures
and it was the intention Of the art com
mittee to put one in every fourth room
in the different districts. It was voted
that the secretary exp ain to the art
committee the reasons why the board
could not comply with the request and
that the committee be thanked for the
communication.