Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-17
REFERENCE TO CONTROLLER
Situation Due to Changes in Person
mel of the Force.
POINTS COMPLEX AND KNOTTY
Action by the Auditor of the District
of lumbia-Some
of the Queries.

A long list of questions relative to the
payment of officers and teachers in the
public schools of the District for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1908 which was
ferred to the auditor of the District sew
eral days ago by the board of education.
has been transmitted by that official to
the controller of the Treasury with the
request that he render a decision. A num-
Der of questions of Importance in that
they directly affect the payment of sal
aries to certain officers and teachers are
involved, and until the questions have been
decided no payment Of increased salaries or
of salaries affected thereby can be made.
The questions raised. by the board of edu-
cation are as complex and "knotty' as the
ones that arose about this time last year
incident to the enforcement of the provi-
sions of the school reorganiza ton act of
June - 1905.
Changes in Personnel.
The board of education has made num-
Der of changes in the personnel of OFF,
GERS and teachers. based upon provision of
the new school act. and 1t is because of
such changes and the question as to the
pay of the officers and teachers concerned
has arisen. The act. Auditor Tweedale
says, provides for certain automatic in
crcaSeS, but before he is inclined to pay
the new salaries he Is DESTROYS of having
the exact and legal intent and meaning OF
the various provisions Of the reorganization
daw authoritatively decided.
One of the important questions raised by
the board of education is regarding the
transfer of the assistant superintendent of
schools to the position of supervising prin-
cipal. Tie maximum salary for the latter
position is s.. 700, which Auditor Tweedale
says is more than is received by any super
vising principal at the present time. and
greater also than a supervising principal
can receive under the law granting in
creases for four years. He says the
amount specified for supervising principals
for the fiscal year 1893 is $1,000 each.
Question of Importance.
Another important question is relative 10
the transfer OF the principal of Normal
School No to the position of assistant
director of primary instruction, with the
maximum salary of the assistant directors
position, $3.50 The auditor contends that
this salary should not be allowed, as the
amount specified for assistant director of
primary instruction for the fiscal year
1908 is only $3.50.
The board of education has also trans
ferred the assistant director of drawing to
position as teacher of drawing in the high
schools. and makes provision to allow him
the maximum salary of class }, namely,
81 800, which salary. the auditor contends,
a teacher entering this class would
have to wait ten years before he or she
could receive according to the law. as she
interprets it, \ similar question is raised
In the case of the transfer of the assistant
director of kindergartens to the position of
model kindergarten teacher, with the maxi
mum salary of c'ass 4. s1,1Oo. for which
amount the auditor says a new teacher
entering this class would have to wait ten
years
Forwarded to Controller.
The list of questions from the board of
education which Auditor Tweedale and
his assistants have been wrestling with.
and which have been forwarded TO the
controller to decide, includes a number
similar cases. Among the others Is the
transfer of a teacher IL the high schools
to the seventh grade prinCipalship, with 4
salary in class next above the salary