The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-08
School Committee Report Shows Mere Revision
 of Old Salary
 Schedule. PROVIDES SOME INCREASE General Average Between Fourteen and Fifteen
 Per Cent. NO SCHEDULE FOR. THE H. s. Merit System is Maintained Dissatisfaction Ex-
 pressed.
NO SCHEDULE FOR. THE H. s.

The Iong-awaited report of the school committee to the board of education, containing the new schedule which is recommended by that committee, was made last evening and the members of the board now have 1t under con slderation, final action being set down for a special meeting set for next We'd nesday evening. The new schedule as proposed is built on the same principle as that formerly in existence, and pro- vides a general framework of maximum salaries for each grade. The general average of increases in the grade school is approximately between IA and 15 per cent. but the increase in the various grades is very uneven in order to obviate glaring inequalities existent in the old schedule. The minimum sal ary to be paid to the new teachers ap- pointed for their first-year work is changed from $500 to $35O, and the in- crease for the second year of teaching is $100, making the second year $450, The largest increases have been made in the second, third and fourth grades, which were formerly the most poorly paid and which the committee has made equal with the first and fifth grades. Annual increases are provid- ed for in each grade until the maxi mum is reached. The average salary for all grade teachers, exclusive of principals, supervisors and special teachers, will be s6SO instead of $565, as at present.
 The committee announces that no att tempt whatever has been made to es- tablsh a schedule in the high school. In other words, increases in the high school as in the past, will be based solely on the so-called merit system" The new schedule provides for four naximums instead of the two suggest ed by the Teachers league, and in no respect resembles the schedule asked for by the teachers. A minimum of $450 in the grammar schools was asked for and the new schedule sets $350 as the minimum The maximums as ask ed by the teachers were two-$750 for the first six grades and $S50 for grades seven and eight
 The increases vary from $50 to $15O. About AIS teachers, it is figured, are affected in the grammar grades, of which 167, or 40 per cent, will get the maximum increase of $15O; GA, or 15 per cent, increases of from $100 to $125; 87, or 91-2 per cent, increases of $60 to 800, and 147 about 35 per cent. The total increases recommended, 1t is figured, will total about 7,640.
 The schedule provides a maximum of $2,5OO for supervising principals, which is the same as the theoretical maxi mum now on the books. As matter of fact no one has received more than $23o0 and in the appointment list for next year the maximum allotted is s2,4OO
 A meinber of the executive com- mittee of the Teachers league seen last evening, declared his complete unsatis- faction with the proposed schedule and expressed the opinion that the league throughout the city would be thorough fly dissatisfied with the action taken. He stated that the teachers would wage their campaign with increasing vgor A meeting of the executive committee of the league has been call ed for Monday afternoon to act on the matter.
 The complete report of the school committee containing the new schedule follows:
 Committees Report.
 The committee on school herewith submits It's report upon teachers sal aries. The committee presents the fol- lowing schedule of teachers salaries recommending its adoption to take ef- feet when the necessary funds are sup piled by the board of finance.
 The first figure represent the maxi mum salaries recommended by com mittee and the second figure represents the maximum salaries paid at present.
 Grade 1, $65O, $500. Grade 2, $65O, $500. Grade 8, $65O $500. Grade 4, $650, $55O. Grade 5, $65O, $500. Grade 6, $700, $640. Grade ', $75O $7OO Grade 8, $500, $75O, Grade 8, assistant, $650, S550.
 Kindergarten principals, double kim dergarten, $66O, $500.
 Teachers of single kindergartens and assistants in double kindergartens, $500, $500.
 Teachers of unclassified rooms, $7OO, $65O
 Teachers of ungraded disciplinary rooms, $S50, sS50,
 Principals of twelve-room buildings, s1,00O. $1,00O.
 Principals of four-room buildings, S7Oe, $500
 Principals of two-room buildings, s67N.