The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-08
TEACHERS PLAN IGNORED.

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 Supervising principals, $2,5OO, $2,5OO.
 Supervisor of sewing in grades, $500, s75O.
 Supervisor of manual training in grades, $500, $75O.
 Special teacher of cooking in grades, $7Oc. $500.
 Salaries of other supervisors and of principals of buildings of more than twelve rooms to be adjusted by the board according to the duties and res- possibilities of each position.
 Minimum salary, paid inexperienced Normal school graduates, first year, $S50. Inexperienced teachers beginning at $35O shall be designated as "Proba- tionary Teachers and shall, in case of satisfactory service, be appointed as regular teachers after one year of pro bationary work, at salary of $450. They shall, thereafter, if efficient, re- ceive an annual increase of $50 in sal ary until, in each case, their grade maximum is reached. No probationary teacher shall be appointed as a regular teacher if her work is unsatisfactory
 
 The committee recommends that when the new salary schedule goes in to effect, each teacher receiving for the present school year, l9O6-7, the maxi mum salary of her grade under the present schedule, be placed immediately at the maximum salary of her grade under the new schedule; that each teacher now in the employ of the board not receiving, at the present time, her maximum grade salary by the present schedule, be given salary $15O larger than her salary for the present school year, unless this increase of $50 would make her salary in excess of her maxi mum under the new schedule; in such case, her increase will be the difference between her salary for the school year 1906-7 and her maximum under the new schedule. This increase of $150 is recommended as it is the extreme amount which any teacher would re- ceive in passing from her maximum salary under the present schedule to the maximum salary of the same grade under the new schedule.
 This new schedule, if put into effect September 1, 1907, would require an in crease of $4O.555 for the school year 1oO7-S over the salary expense of the same period under the present sched- ule. If put into effect January 1, 1908 the increase for the calendar year 1908 will be somewhat larger than that for the school year 19O7-19OS under the same schedule. This difference is due to the fact that the school year for which contracts are made with teachers closes Tn the middle Of the calendar year and regular increases in salary take place under the rule at that time for the collowing school year. The salaries therefore of teachers not a maximum, are larger from September to January than from January to July in the same calendar year.
 It is difficult to estimate exactly what the ultimate total increase in salaries will be under the new schedule. If all teachers now in the employ of the board should reach the new salary maximums, the total increase involved by the new schedule would be about 1 S45. 900.
 Increase of new schedule over pres ent salaries. 19O6-7, $47,64O.
 Tn the consideration of the salary matter the committee has endeavored 1 to remove the manifest inequalities of the present schedule and also to re- wise the entire schedule that 1t may compare fairly favorable with the sal aries of other cities in which good schools are maintained and competent teachers employed From the first it has been apparent that teachers in the second, third and fourth grades, espec- Eially, are underpaid. There Is no req son, in the minds of the committee. why teachers in these grades should receive less than other primary and in- termediate teachers. The cost of liv- ing is the same for all, the same schol- astic and professional training is re- 1 quired, and, in a general way, the same degree of ability for successful school work is necessary. If, at the pres- ent time, the tendency is for abler and more experienced teachers to find their way into other grades, this is due not to the fact that other grades require larger ability, but rather to the fact l that the salaries of other grades under 1 the present schedule furnish greater inducements for teachers to enter them. The effect of the low salaries now paid in these three grades has been to weaken the work and to destroy the stability and permanency of the corps of teachers in them The committee, l therefore, deems it wise to recommend 1 that the salaries of the first five grades be the same, and that the maximum J salary of each of these grades be made 1 s65O This is an increase of $50 in the maximum of the first five grades, an increase of $150 in the second and third grade, and of $100 in the fourth grade.
 In the sixth. seventh and eighth grades. the committee believes that in dealing with the older pupils of these grades, difficulties in management and discipline exist which are not found in the lower grades It is difficult to say just where the line should be drawn. but the committee believes that as boys and girls approach the high school and the highest grammar grades they are reaching an age when added work and responsibilities are placed up- OF the teacher which warrants a dis tlnction in salary. The committee fur thermore considers it desirable that po- sitions may exist in the schools which may be attractive to the more ambi- tious teachers and to which they may aspire. The committee has decided to recommend maximum salaries of $700, $750 and $500 for the sixth, seventh and