The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-18
SCHOOLS ASKING
QUARTER MILLION
Their Draft on the Budget for
the Ensuing Year Stated by
Items.
WANT INCREASE IN SALARIES
In District Schools IS Per Cent.
Is Desired and in High
School More.

The Board of School Trustees has COM
pleted it's estimate of the financial needs
of the Department of Education. and has
sent the figures to the Finance Committee
of the Council for consideration in max
ing up the budget. The estimate and
the various items for which the appro-
priation is desired are as follows:
Pay-roli.... .......... .S152,2G4 3s
General cxpenses. 16,O@5 co
Special repairs, ETC.. c1,G44 so
New building, Valley
School ............... 10000 90
Manual trimming and kin
derEarten ........t.... 16,759 30
Jamestown Exposition
exhibit ............ 1900 90
For schools annexed.... :7,O4O54
Total Observation-Disclosures ScS8, 1870 g.
While this estimate is what the board
desires and feels that the advancement
and maintenance of work and the proper
care of the annexed territory demands,
this expenditure 1t is hardly expected
that the Finance Committee will re-
commend all that is asked.
The board will establish two additional
kindergartens. one in Fulton and another
in the central portion of the city, If it
has the funds required. 1t is also pro-
posed to extend the manual training
feature as much as practicable. The
recommendation for building for Valley
School has been made for several years
in vain.
Pay of Teachers.
The board OF school trustees met joint
ly yesterday with the Special Joint Conn
mittee of the Council on Investigation of
the Public Schools and the Methods of
Instruction there, Chairman w. Fred
Richardson presided, and a very harmon-
ious and interesting meeting, lasting until
after P. NJ, was held. The joint bodies
devoted the entire session to the con-
sideration of the matter OF the salaries
of school teachers. Mr. Ebel. Mr.. Hutzler
Mr.. A. H. Iil and Mr. Walford parti-
cipated actively in the conference, as did
the members of the committee. The In
crease IN salaries asked by the board will
average about % per cent, or. 10 per cent
less than that asked by the teachers
Members of the board asserted that the
salaries Of High School teachers In this
city are GO per cent. below the average of
other cities OF the same DOpulitllO1li VI
greater, and those of the district teachers
about 80 per cent below the average In
other words, the maximum salary being
asked here is SIS per month less than tho
minimum being paid in thirty cities
of the same size, approximately. In pay
of High School teachers Richmond stands
lowest In the country, and in the other
schools third from the bottom OF the list,
Tho women teachers OF Richmond are
paid Al per cent, less than those in Nor
folk.
The board asks an increase for the as
slstant principal of he5EIgh School from
sl,125 to sl,5Go, and of the principal from
ST 800 to $1,000. The increase in salaries
of other teachers is about one-fourth OF
the salaries now paid. 4
The meeting adjourned without action,
hut with n better understanding Of the
situation, and Mr. Pollard, subchairman OF
the Finance Committee, got some valuabls
light on the situation for the guidance of
his assactate2