The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-18

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4 recommendation by the commit,
tee on teachers and school work to
the Board OF Education. assembled
as a committee Of the whole Tuesday
night. that the maximum salary at.
.ainablc by the teachers OF the ele~
meptary schools be fixed at $3.50 a
month. instead of $50; that the maxi
mum salary attainable by principals
Of the elementary schools be advanced
from SlS5 q month to SlS150, and
that blanket increase of $3.50 q
month be granted 10 all the teachers,
effective at the beginning OF the
second semester, immersed the COM
lion, which ended at 1920 O'Clock,
leaving the salaries no higher than
before.
The recommendation of the COM
nlittee on teachers and school work
that G.. C.. Spooner, head of the physic
department of, Of the hieh school school be be
Ssli5, prccipitared the debate. The
University of Michigan wants Mr..
Spooner. it appears, and he asked the
school board TO abrogate his contract,
In order 10 hold Mr.. Spooner for the
remainder of the school year the com
nittee ou teachers recommended that
University of Michigan offered him
Mr. Moyle opposed the proposed in.
crease on the ground that it would
establish a bad precedent, and Mr.,
Thomas favored it, declaring that Mr..
Spooper is one of, the best physicists
IN 1be country. apd the discussion
waxed long and furious. The matter
was finally laid over. to be brought up
with the proposed general increase in
salaries.
Newman .'Agin' II.
Mr.. Newman leads the fight on this.
.'Can We keep up the increase next
year?'f Mr.. Newman wanted TO know.
lie claimed TO have heard cries from
the taxpayers already.
warmly declared Mr.. Thomas, '.and
an NOT complaining. The people here
have the faculty OF rearing lots, OF
children, and they appear TO be willing
TO pay for educating them we'll. |
have heard no complaints. In year
or so it is expected to 60 before the
Legislature and ask IL to give the
city the, power to increase the bonded
Indebtedness 10 build half-million
dollar high school building, and / shall
favor the proposition And there was
a taeit pledge made to the governor
by members Of this board that if he
would sign the bill passed by the
last Legislature increasing the tax levy
one mill. one-half of this increase would
crease means $4,000 for half year,
and the board is now giving more than
half Of all its revenues to the teach
crs. If we want to get good teachers.
aud keep them, we must pay them good
salaries.'
Mr.. Newman again advanced the fear
nat the board could not get back TO the
lower salaries. now paid, next year in
,be face of the contemplated increase
and asserted that the teachers are as
well paid here for the amount OF work
they are required to do as anywhere IN
The country, He mistakenly pointed out
that recent report of the superlntend-
ent said that there were only twenty
three pupils TO each instructor in the
grade schools. The report, it was eX
planned to him, covered only The num-
her OF pupils for each teacher in the
high school,
View of President
Judge Henderson said that IL had
been agreed with the governor
by certain members of the board that
ouly one half of the one.mill increased
tax levy should be used. "When it
came to the county we got the whole
amount from it, he said. "The law
says that we we must n. apply ply this s. on the
quires that we give the teachers the
benefit Of this increase in the tax
levy Judge Henderson is of the
opinion, however, that it might be 4
good thing not TO entirely exhaust tho
fund.
Prof. Cummings said that the delay
i'll the completion of new buildings com
PEELED the use Of smaller class rooms in
some instances which requires two
teachers where only one will be needed
when the buildings are finished. On
this account there will not be material
increase in teachers next year aud the
increase will not bring a heavy addi-
tlonal expenditure.
Mr.. MoyIe, after making>it clear that
he made no promises to the governor to
get him to sign the bill increasing the
tax levy, said that he believes the
schedule for the increase in salaries is
'ttop heavy In other words that the
proposed advance for the low salared
teachers is not great enough and that
the increase for the high. .salaried ones
IS too much. At his suggestion the
minimum salary for beginners was in
serted in the committee report at $47.50
instead of So and it is likely that it will
be still further raised to $50 1t doesn 4
matter SO much whether the high school
principals and teachers are advanced
or not, Mr.. Moyc believes.
View Of Pref. Cummings.
In Prof Cummings opinion, the
compensation Of the high school teach
ers and principals is niggagdly, The
teachers generally arc underDaid and
overworked, and should be raised. The
incrt asc in the property valuation next
year will be sufficient to maintain the
proposed increase.
Superintendent Christensen explained
that the three-mjll tax levy netted the
school board $4,000 apnroximateiy
LAST year, The salaries reached $l27 900,