The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-07-20
RAISE MAXIMUM
SALARIES OF
TEACHERS
Education Board Committee
FavOrS Increases All
Along the Line.

Maximum salaries of school teachers
the meeting of the teachers committee
of the Board of Education. everybody
getting a raise but the city superin-
tendent, the assistant superintendent
and the High School principal. The
committee practically completed it's
schedule of salaries, subject, of course,
to approval of the board next week.
The increases in some salaries go into
effect next year and in Others they go
into effect at once. An increase of 800
a year will be made until the salaries
reach the maximum fixed in the sched-
ule last night.
The Board of School Estimate, in fix
ing the amount to be appropriated by
the Common Council In the 1907 tax or
dinance for school maintenance, al
lowed $4,000 to provide for this years
payments of increases in salaries. 1t is
estimated by School Commissioner
James A. Backus. chairman of the sub
committee which reported last night on
the new schedule, that not more than
$4,000 of that will be required for the
months of September, October, Novem-
ber and December, and that the new
schedule Will demand an advance of
$4,000 over the 1907 appropriation in 1905
For grammar and primary teachers
1t is the desire of the committee to fix
q maximum of S1,100 per year in place
of the present maximum of 5000. These
teachers form the great majority of the
city's million-dollar staff, and are
ranked as assistants.
The new schedule calls for a salary
of $500 for temporary appointees, and
$3.50 after the appointment Is made per-
manent by the Board of Education
After the permanent appointment, an
increase of $50 per year is provided un-
til 5000 per year is reached, when there
is Jump of $40. The following year,
the salary must be advanced to the
new 81, 100 maximum.
Men principals in schools of more than
II classes are down In the new list for n
maximum of $1,000, instead of $500, the
present figure. In schools under fifteen
class rooms, principals will have a maxi
mum of $500 per year. an increase of 5000
per year An advance from $1,500 to 81, 800
per year is called for in the maximum for
women principals The salary maximum
for grammar vice principals will be
changed frorr $1,000 to S1,500 and for pri-
mary vice principals from $1.100 to $1,000
The maximum for the principal of the
Normal and Training School, w. Spader
Willis, is set down for an increase from
$500 to S3,700. For general assistant at
the Normal School. new maximum, $1,000;
old, $500; teachers of theory, new $l,S00;
old. $500: model and critic teachers new
maximum S1.600 old, 81 300
Principal Wayland e. Stearns of the
High School gets $4,000 per year. and it is
planned to fix the maximum for his posi-
tion at $4,000. although final action on that
was deferred For head teachers, known
as head assistants and heads of depart
ments at the High School 1t Is proposed
to Increase the maximum from $500 to
900 for men and from 800 to 81. 100 for
women. For high school teachers the new
schedule fixes the salary maximum for men
at 1880 and women Mt $1,S00, an advance
of $500 In both cases
The maximum recomm ended by the COM
mittee fer the principal of the Colored
Scfcol in Market street is $1,700 per year.
instead of $1,000 For the head teacher of
the ungraded school a maximum of 81 800
instead of 81 800 Ii in the new schedule.
The assistant teacher in the ungraded
school will get a maximum 500 greater
than that of the teachers occupying Sim
liar position In the regular schools
The scheduled figures of $1,000 per year
for men and 81. 100 for women teachers of
manual training are to be changed to
$500 and $500 per year, respectively.
Klndergarten assistants are down in the
new schedule for the same salaries as
other teachers ranked as assistants, ex-
cept that the maximum is $1,050 per year
instead of $1.100
primary and head assistants in the gram