The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
FIGHTS SHY ON
 TEACHERS ISSUE
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be benefited by it. not the treasury of the board of education. But he still maintained that he did not intend to fight it.
 When asked if there were any teach CTS in the district who got salaries from the state less than the new sal aries of the other teachers of the same grade in the city school would amount to, he said he thought there were three such teachers but added that he un- derstood MT. Hines, of the state board, had stated that their salaries would be increased So as to equal the amount voted them by the city of New Haven.
 Mir. Beede ended by saying that the state board had entire authority in the matter and, as far as he went, he did not see that anything could be done He said the city board did not know what these teachers received.
 Arthur B. Morrill,, the principal of the State Normal school, who is said to be in close touch with MT. Hines movements, refused absolutely to say anything in regard to the matter. MT Morrill, was asked to give his reasons for his refusal to speak and he would not even give them. His silence on the matter may be taken as ominous'
 Frank o. Jones, the supervising prin cipal of the Dwight School district said that he should have liked to see the teachers benefit by the city's good intentions. He would not say, how ever, that they should get an increase Their salaries, he said, were a personal matter between the state board and them. His advice was to ask either Mr Merrill or MT Hines but as has been stated, neither of them were available.
 The most exasperating feature of the whole affair seems to be that the state board as indicated by the actions of Charles D. Hines, it's secretary, does not intend to take other action. The schools of the so-called Dwight School district are three in number. They are the Dwight Place. the Orchard and the Roger sherman schools. These schools are run by the state board of educa- tion under the terms of contract made by that board with the New Ha- ven School district. This contract was made in the summer of 1893 and is in corporated in the annual report of the local board of education for the year ending July II, 1895.
 The contract is a remarkable one in many ways, and bears careful scrutiny in view of the developments of recent date. In 1t the New Haven school district is spoken of as the district" !" According to its first section 1t ap- pears that any or all of the schools of the city of New Haven may be taken for the use Of the state board of ed ucation, if the Iatter organization so wishes.
 The section referred to reads as fol- lows:
 T, Said district shall always here after furnish, and except as herein after provided, and will maintain at it's expense such ofathe public schools within said district as said state board of education shall from time to time deem fitted in respect to their grade and location, as we'll as in other re- spects, and so many of them as they shall from time to time regard as nec- essary, in order to supply suitable and sufficient model and practice schools in connection with the training de- partment of the state normal school in New Haven"
 Section two provides that the dis trict shall furnish the schools selected for practice, or model, schools, and that the state board shall be given free access. Section three provides that the district shall keep the schools clean and provide janitors.
 Sections four and five are of more immediate application. They apply to the teachers and read as follows
 "IV. The state board of education shall alweys have the right to select the teachers employed in the schools furnished as aforesaid. and to dismiss l them at pleasure, and to regulate the l discipline and course and method ol study In said schools.
 ". The state board of education 1 shall not be obliged to receive more than forty (40) pupils In any room i The said district will employ one teach CT for each room, who shall be elected as hereinbefore provided by the state board of education
 | In connection with the above it may | be stated that in many cases with the other schools the number of pupils in one room often runs as high as fifty but in these practice schools there can never be more than forty under the terms of the contract with the state 1 board of education.
 ] The most interesting articles In this most remarkable document are those of Section [, which in part reads as | follows:'
 VIII This agreement is made ii all respects subject to the following un- derstanding had with the state board of education and accepted by them as q qualification of this instrument: | "l If the salary of any teacher se- lected by said board shall exceed the | maximum amount paid to teachers ir other public schools of the same grade within said district. the excess of sucl salary over and above that amount shall be paid by the state, and if any such teacher has had more than thre, years experience iii teaching, the eX cess of such salary over and abov, what such teacher would be paid un der the rules and practice of said dis 1 tflcL small De pdlu Dy the SlaIe.
 "2. If the cost of supplies required il any school year for model and practic
 schools by the principal of the Stat
 Normal school shall exceed the aver
 age amount of thirty-tive dollars pc
 room. the excess over and above thi amount shall be paid by the state
 "3 The board of education agree that the scholars in said model an
 practice schools shall be taught a
 thoroughly and advance as rapidly il
 the studies prescribed by the board o
 education of the New Haven city scheo
 district for the public schools of sai
 district. as in the averae schools O
 corresponding grades within said dis
 trict"
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