Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-20
PUBLIC SCHOOL NEEDS
Recommendations of the
Board of Education.
MEDICAL INSPECTION
REASONS GIVEN FOR INCREASES
ASKED FOR IN SALARIES.
Additions to Be Made to the Force of
Teachers Now Number
ing 1,346.
MEDICAL INSPECTION

In the complete estimat ties of the board OF
education for the fiscal year beginning
July 1 next, submitted Saturday to the
Commissioners, the features Of which were
published in Saturdays Star, recommended
ton is made for the promotion of large
number Of the officials and principals of
public schools and the directors of special
studies. In the first instance the board
asks that salaries of $4,000 each be pro-
vided for the two assistant superintendent
of schools material increase over the
present allowance. 1t Is stated in support
of this recommendation that the Senate
amendment providing for a board Of edu-
cation for the District of Columbia orgi
nally placed these salaries at $4,000 each.
1t is considered that the important relations
sustained by these officers to the superin
tendent and to the board entitle them to
the increase asked.
The board again asks for, and the Com
missioners will urge before Congress, an
item of $500 for eleven medical inspectors
in the schools at $500 a year each The
purpose of this item is the detection and ex-
cluslon from the schools of pupils suffering
from communicable diseases.
The board asks for an increase in the
salary of its secretary from $1,000 to s., 200
a year. and of the chief clerk from 81 400
to 81, 600 a year An additional clerk at
S5oV is also requested.
Supervising Principals.
In the promotion of principals, directors,
teachers, etc, one item increases to 81, 500
the salaries of eight supervising principals
who now receive $1,000 each. These In
creases are in the interest Of better pay for
supervision. The estimates three years ago
called for eleven salaries at 81 800, but in
view Of the fact that three of the incum-
bentS are new appointees, the board asks
an increase for only those who have been
longest in the service-eight in number.
These officers have charge, under the super
intendent, Of divisions comprising from
sixty-five to 100 schools each. Their work
embraces wide range Of administrative
duties connected with the primary and
grammar schools, such as the organization
of schools and the grading and examina-
ton of pupils. They are responsible in
their respective localities for the instruc-
ton and discipline of pupils and the general
efficiency of teachers. In view of these
facts, the Commissioners have for the past
four years approved the estimates of the
school board for an increase in the salaries
Of the supervising principals from $1,000 to
$3.50.
Another item places the salary of the
director of manual training at So, 800. This
officer has the direction of all the manual
training shopwork in the graded schools,
and supcrvises the courses of instruction
III Mckinley and Armstrong Manual Train
ing Schools. His responsibility increases
with the development of the manual train
ing idea in the school system.
High School Principals.
The board desires to increase the salaries
of the principals of five high schools, two
manual training schools and two normal
schools to $1,000. Teachers with like duties
elsewhere receive much larger salaries than
those paid in the District Of Columbia
The item providing for nine teachers at
$1,000 year each promotes four High
School teachers from 81, 500 to 81 500; two
High School teachers from 81 200 to 81, 600;
one manual training teacher from 81 300
to 81 600, and two from 81 200 to $1,000
This leaves only those teachers now In the
81 800 class.
In estimating for nine teachers at 81, 400
each, 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 oul-
ture, with 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 obtained In this way
than by constantly increasing the number
Of teachers Of special subjects This item
increases the salaries of the directors of
music, physical culture and drawing; two
manual training teachers, and two heads of
departments in the High School from 81 200
to 81 400, and those Of the directors of cook
ing and sewing from $1,000 to 81 400.
Provision for Teachers.
The item for six teachers at $1,000 pro-