Evening star., 1901-10-10
MATTER OF SALARIES
INCREASE ASKED FOR PRINCIPALS
AND TEACHERS.
Item in the Estimates Submitted Yes
terday by the Board of
Education.

In the estimates of the board of educa-
ton for the public schools of the District
during the year beginning July 1, 1902, sub
mitted to the Commissioners yesterday af-
ternoon, there was an item which provided
for an increase in the salaries of eight su
pervising principals from 81, 900 to $500 per
annum. On the subject the board made
this statement:
These increases are in the interest of bet
ter pay for supervision. The estimates year
before last called for eleven salaries at
s., 800 but in view of the fact that three
of the incumbents are new appointees, the
beard asks increase for only those who
have been longest in the service-eight in
number. These officers have charge under
the superintendent, of divisions comprising
from siXty-five to one hundred schools each.
Their work embraces wide range of ad-
ministrative duties, connected with the pri-
mary and grammar schools, such as the
organization of schools and the grading and
examination of pupils. They are responsible
in their respective localities for the instruc-
tion and discipline of pupils. and the gen.
eral efficiency of teachers. In view of these
facts, the Commissioners have for the past
three years approved the estimates of the
school board for an increase in the sala-
ries of the supervising principals from
$1,000 to 81, 800
Salaries of Principals.
Another item in the estimates increases
the salaries of five principals of high
schools from $1,000 to 81 800, and also pro-
vides increase to 1,SOO in the pay of
the principal of Manual Training School
No. 1, and the principal of Manual Train
ing School No 2.
An additional salary item of $500 is
asked for the high school to secure a quail
fled director of the department of French.
The board desires to place the salaries
of all the directors of special studies in
the graded schools uniformly at 81 400 each
1t is the policy of the board to keep COM
petent persons at the heads of the special
departments-drawing, music, physical cul-
ture-W1th a view of qualifying the grade
teachers to do much of the work now per-
formed by special teachers, believing that
better results can be attained in this way
than by constantly increasing the number
OF teachers of special subjects. This plan
will increase the salaries of the directors
of music, physical culture and drawing
from 81 200 to 81, 400, and those of the di-
rectors of cooking and sewing from 81 ,0Go
to 81 400.
Twelve Hundred Each.
The board asks for forty-six salary items
of 81 200 each, which will provide for two
additional 81 200 salaries in the high schools
and one in Manual Training School No /,
and Increases the number of principals of
eight-room buildings receiving 81 200 from
ten to twenty-five.
THE teachers Of the eight-room build
ings are teachers of ripe experience says
the board, and are responsible, without
assistants, for the discipline and manage
ment of buildings containing from nine to
twelve schools, aggregating in some in
stances 500 pupils. No class of teachers
are more deserving of better pay than are
principals of buildings. Without exception
these teachers have risen to their present
position after years of faithful
service. They should receive more than
$1,000. In distributing the number of 81 100
salaries here asked for, 1t Is the purpose of
the board to award them in an order to he
determined solely by efficiency and length
of service