New-York tribune., 1908-07-09
TEACHERS PAY RAISED
Women Lose Fight for Equal Re
7punerdtlOn.

,.,xr ,, ,,s,- fight for equal pay" women
teachers particularly in the eiemen'aiE -
received advances in the revised schsnuio o 90
ar,e. aaopted by the Board OF Education ses.ei
- =. -. last r,eetine until September Ihe
L,nd.rgarten teachers had made hsnt tof III
creased pay but change was mace ZOE ti'e,n ~,
In the cases where advances were given 70 tle
women teachers they did not bring their salaries
I'D to the plane of the men teachers Inc iiioie
voted amount to about s3.O0o,eoo
,nrv tr-o votes we're cast against the new scneu-
,Ie ona commissioner successfully insisting thae
IS O0o an increase of $1,000. was too mucn 10 pay
Dr. Luther H. Guck, the director OF phS7i0ai
training. and Dr. Mcdonald pleased the women
teachers nv urging that the salary Of the drectof
of cooking and sewing be $4,000 instead or S5".
with yearly increases to bring It 10 $4,000 year
In the elementary schools the salaries VIII "
First year. women $3.50: men. s2'oo; second year.
women $500; men. 5000; third year. "oineh'
81 80: men, $3.50; fourth year. women. sSo"' men,
ss ,oo Wornen teachers in charge of schools liav-
ing less than twelve classes but more than SIX ana
women assistants TO principals. get lh0loa
whereas the men teachers of this grade 40 NOT
The maximum here for the women is slSOo ana ior
the men g. 200. The board added $40 TO the hrst
years pay of women teachers beginning In tne
elementary schools making it s72o a year. with the
six year xinum ST. 40.
The board indulged in rather lively oiscuSsioh
of the special report trade schools, hnally Vot-
ing $4,000 During the discussion on the passage oil
lvn bows cry for this technical training Com
missioners Jonas and Kelly voted alone In the
negative on final passage. Under the report shop
work will be introduced in all schools which nave
boys In the seventh and eighth year. and shop
work will be required Of boys who reach their
twelfth year A separate vacation school will be
established in Public School IA. in Orchard street.
Manhattan and fifteen cIassrooms will be set aside
for girls in Public School 75. in Brooklyn
The board had expected to ratify the nomina-
ton of DR. Ernest r. Won Nardron as principal OF
the De Witt Clinton High School TO succeed the
late John T. Buchanan. but the COMMITTEES on high
schools and training schools refused to approve
the nomination by the Board of Superfntendents'
and it was withdrawn DR.. Nardrof is
teacher in the Erasmus Hall High School, and by
some he Is regarded the proper candidate for the
sprincipaIship of the Stuyvesant High School.
Friends of Arthur woifson, acting principal at
De Witt Clinton hope to see him made the prin-
cpaI.
Among charter amendments approved was one
that no married woman shall be permitted to teach
unless her husband is ncapacitated for work. or
unless her husband has left her for at least one
year.
The effort to retire John l.. n. Hunt as dis
t-ict <1Jperintendent was defeated by lack or TWO
votes and the selection of his successor was put
onf until the October meeting. Superintendent
Henry w Jameson was elected to succeed himself
and Joseph Il Wade was elected TO succeed John
II Haaren The old executive committee was 70
elected George w. Schoede succeeding Richard H
Adams resigned A petition for the transfer of
Miss Richman a district superintendent, was re-
ferred