Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24
PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW
Provisions of Bill Approved by
the President.
NEW BOARD OF EDUCATION
Members Must Be Bona Eide Resi-
dents of District.
LOCAL JUDGES TO APPOINT
Holding of Public Sessions-Salaries
of Teachers and Ofcials-
Placed in Glasses.


The act of Congress to Ak and regulate
the salaries of teachers. school officers and
other employees of the board Of education
of the District of Columbia was approved
by the President last Wednesday.
The first section provides that after July
1, 1906. all children Of school age being in
structed In the schools of the District be-
yond the second grade shall be given a
whole-day session.
The control of the schools Is vested in a
board of education to consist of nine mem
bers. three OF whom shall be women. and
all having been bona fide residents of the
District for at least five years.
Appointments of members Of the board
are to be made by the Supreme Cour.
judges of the District of Columbia for
terms of three years each, In the original
appointments three for one year, three for
two years and three for three years. Mem
bers are to be eligible for reappointment
and are to serve without compensation
The board Is to meet within thirty days
after appointment. 1t will appoint secre-
tary, who shall not be a member of the
board, and must meet at least once q
month all meetings except committee
meetings dealing with the appointment OF
teachers to be public.
Appointments. promotions, transfers and
dismissals may only be made upon the
written recomme ndation of the superin-
tendent of schools. All questions of general
policy are to be determined by the board
and all expenditures of public funds shall
be made and accounted foT as now provid-
ed by law under the direction and control OF
the Commissioners. An estimate must be
transmitted annually on the LIST of October
to the Commissioners By the board, show
ing the amount of money required for the
schools for the ensuing year, and the Com
missoners shall transmit the same with
their annual estimates. with such recon-
mendatioTiS as they deem proper.
Powers Of the Board
Furthermore. the board shall appoint one
superintendent for all the public schools in
the District of Columbia, who shall hold
office for termof three years and who shall
have the direction OF and Supervision in all
matters pertaining to the instruction In all
the schools under the board Of education. He
shall have a seat in the board and the right
TO speak on all matters before the board
but not the right to vote.
The board shall have the power to re-
move the superintendent at any time for
adequate cause affecting his character and
efficiency superintendent
The board, upon the written recommended
ton of the superintendent of schools shall
also appoint one white assistant superin-
ored assistant superintendent for the col
ored schools. The white assistant super
intendent, under the direction of the the
intendent OF schools, shall have general
supervision over the white schools and Is
specifically charged. under the direction OF
the superintendent, with the unifcation as
far as may be practicable, of the educa-
tlonal work of the white high schools and of
all academic and scientific subjects In the
Mckinley Manual Training School and the
Business High School.
The colored assistant superintendent I'M
der the direction of the superintendent of
schools, shall have sole charge of all teach
ers, classes and schools in which colored
children are taught And he is specifically
charged under the direction of the super
intendent, with the unification, so far as
may be practicable, of the educational
work of the colored high schools, and of all
the academic and scientific subjects of the
Armstrong Manual Training School. And
he also shall be charged specifically, under
the direction of the superintendent, with the
uniflcation of the educational work of the
intermediate grades of the colored schools
intermediate instruction.
The board upon the written recommended
ton of the superintendent of schools, shall
appoint a director of intermediate instruc-
ton for the white schools who shall have
charge under the direction of the superin-
tendent of the unfcation of educational
There shall be appointed by the board a
supervisor of manual training who. under
the direction of the superintendent, shall
have supervision of manual training in
struction.
The salaries of teachers are arranged in
$500 to 500; class 8, $3.50 to 800. Progress
sions in each of these classes Is by ad-
vances of S25.
Glass has eleven salaries ranging from
a pyltb In Of oIa
the same number, ranging from $3.50 to
81, $50 the increase being $40 The sixth and
last class is divided into groups "A" and
'B, the first beginning with 81 600 and
after one year increasing by 500 raises to
$3.50, the second. b has only four sal
arfes. 1890, $1,000, $2,100 and $4,000.
Teachers are placed IN these classes as
follows:
kindergarten assistants. class l. Model
teachers of first and second grades, and
of kindergarten. class 4. Teachers of first
and second grades class =. Teachers of
third and fourth grades, and kindergarten
principals. class B.. Teachers of fifth sixth
and seventh grades, class 4 Teachers of
eighth grades, class 5 Teachers of man
ual training. drawing, physical culture, mu-
sic, domestic science, domestic art In the
graded schools classes 3 10 l. inclusive
| Teachers of manual training. drawing ply
steal culture, music, domestic science do
mestic art In normal. high and manual
training schools, classes to B.
The assistants TO directors of primary IN
| struction are to be in classes four and ave.
Head Teachers and Others.
Head teachers and teachers of normal
/ high and manual training schools. Group A.
! class six: Teachers of the normal. high and
manual training schools now receiving less
| than $500 who have not taught five years
| or more In graded high schools SHAH
| receive an annual increase not ito exceed
| Sl1o until the minimum salary of class
/ six is reached. when they shall thereafter
J receive the increase provided IN that class
Spe cial beginning teachers in the norm A!
! school may. be appointed for a TWO years
| probationary period upon the recommenda-
| ton OF the principal OF the normal school
at a salary of $50 for the first year and
500 for the second year. and thereafter
! Ii continued, they shall receive the increase
! provided for In this class.
| Heads OF departments in high and manual
| training schools. Group b OF class six.
| Librarians and clerks. classes one two
| and three,