Evening journal., 1904-11-30
ADDRESS BY
JAMES {. CARROLL
Will Speak Before Teachers
Institute on Radical
Reform
S35 SALARIES FOR Teachers

Dover. Nov. 3O.-Superlntendent Of
Free Schools James f. Carroll, who Is
at the head of the legislative committee
appointed by the State Board Of Edu-
cation to wage "a warfare for better pay
for teachers. better school facilities and
better and more healthful schoolhouses.
win be one of the first speakers before
the big convention OF teachers and per-
sons interested in education tomorrow.
The occasion will be the opening of the
Teachers Institute and Professor Car
roll will take this opportunity to de-
liver an address ON the radical reforms
needed I'm Delaware's educational sys-
TEN after a study of them for four
years.
Another opportunity and perhaps the
best yet afforded. win also be given
superintendent Carroll. Spaid and
Brooks i'm outlining the necessary legis-
lation TO be urged by them before the
Legislature at the state House confer
encc next week. when IL is expected
that practically all the Assemblymcn of
Delaware viii be in attendance.
The campaign for nothing less than
S3i salaries for teachers, il is under
stood. Is 10 come first Then win be
The steps for better and more healthful
sch0olhouses to take the places of the
unhealthy ana unsanitary makeshifts
whore teachers and pupils are now re-
quired to labor with the problems of
lifetime.
These steps toward higher and more
thorough education, to be followed by
the consolidation of rural graded
schools into one thorough institution to
which the pupils can be hauled I'm om-
nibuses can an be accomplished. it is
thought, by a total appropriation from
the Legislature Of sl5O0O0 or $780, 600
Already the schools receive annually
from the general fund of the state
Treasurer's Office the proceeds of GER
tain investments of the State. including
some "a percontum of the States Far
mers' Bank stock. together with am am
nual appropriation OF sl32OO0
1t is the Sl32.OOO that it is proposed ia
increase to Sl50,O0O or 100000.
A glance at the receipts of the schools
Of Delaware for their maintenance
from all sources for the last school yeaI
and by all sources is meant state ap-
proprations the collection of taxes and
sale OF text books not, however. in
cluding the city of Wilmington was as
follows:
Single districts-New Castle county
9O,s53.S1 Kent, S27,17o.46; Sussex, $40,
5l2.3S Colored schools. single districts
New Castle county. S7.4S3.65; Kent
S9.35S.76; Sussex. SS,233.33: making a to-
tai OF Sl23.6l1.39.
Incorporated school districts-New
Castle county $29.35929; Kent. S3i.557..
50; Sussex. Si7,509.S1; making a total o
/ ISM, ,42S.92.
] This shows a grand total for boil
single ana Incorporated districts O
S2S5.0iO,3l
This is entirely exclusive of the cit,
of Wilmington. which conducts i'll
schools under its Board of Education
/ separate charter. ana which collects iti
/ own taxes and Is simply allowed a slic,
of the state appropriations At the las
[ Legislature, Wilmington's share of thi.
was increased TO a per capita allowance
for les teachers. ON a basis of S12 600
As this is probably 100 less teachers
/ than are actually employed i'm the
thriving metropolis, it is probable that
| Wilmington will now have an opportun-
/ ity TO get a stlll more liberal amor
tionment