The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
Beede Says He Will Not Fight for the Rights of Dwight
 School District
 Teachers. {
DISCLOSURES AROUSE TALK
Principal NIonill's Silence May be Taken as ominous--He Re fuses to be Inter- |
 .iewcd.

Ihe Journal-Courier's exclusive story of yesterday morning, in which facts were disclosed in regard to the salaries of the teachers of the Dwight school district, as run by the state board of education, was the foundation for the conversation among teachers yester]ay wherever they met From later deve,- opnlents it seems that the matter had long been ranking in the hearts of those whom it most immediately af- iected; With every new phase of the situation presented it seemed more and more evident that something shoul6 be done by those in authority to rem edy matters.
 II IS understood that the total of the raises in the salaries of the teachers in the Dwight school district who number about fifty, amounts to about $S,o0O a, year, s0's'0 I
 A rumor got afloat yesterday to the erect that the state board of educa- ton intended to take the sum total of the raises in salaries of all the teachers and With it pay the salary of one wo- man who should act as lady supervisor in the Dwight school district. either jointly with the present supervising principal, Frank O. Jones, or directly under his charge
 u was pointed out that one supervise ing principal for three schools was suf- iiclent and that another such officer was entirely superficial and savored entirely too strongly of favoritisn and polltics and of being position created Tor somebody who stood in
 several efforts were made by this paper last evening to get Charles D. Hines, the secretary of the state board ot education, on tho phone. Mir. Hines IS really the father of tile conditional under which now in New Haven some iifty teachers in the thres schools of the Dwight school district arc not to be benefited by the raise in salary vot- ca to them along with all other teach CTS, by the city of New Haven. But MT. Hines could not be reached
 It was said at his home inf fsrff4s.ars that 1t was not known when he would De home. Whether or not MT Hines was endeavorlng to shirk the issue of the question, which he could not but know would be put to him after the Journal-Couriers account of yesterday morning, is not known.
 Frank H Beede, as superintendent of schools in this city, was interyiewed for his views on the. matter. MT. Beede was asked if lie knew whether the state intended to continue to withhold the increase of salaries from the teachers of the Dwight Place district. He said he expected matters would continue as they have since the be- ginning of the present school year.
 Asked if he and the New Haven school board intended to fight the matter, he said there would be no objection as far as he knew He had not heard any such rumor as has been mentioned as to the creation of a new supervising principalship. He said he could not see how the state board had failed to keep faith with New Haven. The teachers of the district" he said, will still be receiving more than the regular city teachers
 In these schools the teachers receive more than the regular city teachers because they are called on to instruct the students of the local state normal school as well as the regular scholars. They are presumed to have extra abil- ity and they are paid for it.
 It was shown to MT, Beede that when the standard of salary of the regular teachers was raised and that of these special teachers was not. then their extra ability was valued at less proportionately and, furthermore.