Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-17
IN MEMORY OF SONS PAY OF TEACHERS
Indiana Pays Tribute to Dead Peculiar MMUp Concerning
at Antietam. Increase of Salaries.
DEDICATION OF MONUMENT MAY BE DISAPPOINTMENT
Shaft Provided by State Cost School Employees Not Get
Ten Thousand Dollars. Expected Raises This Month
FORMAL TRANSFERS MADE AUDITOR DOUBTFUL OF LAW
First Presented
on SeveralP
Gov. Marshall fecing A.
Peculiar Mix-Up Concerning
Increase of Salaries.
MAY BE DISAPPOINTMENT
Some School Employees May Not Get
Expected Raises This Month
AUDITOR DOUBTFUL OF LAW
Has Asked the Controller for an
Opinion on Several Points Az
fecting Group A.

Because OF one Of the most profound
miX-ups ever discovered in connection
with the salaries OF public school teach
ers 200 teachers OF the normal. high aud
manual training schools are I'm ignorance
as to what their pay will be beginning
with the school year: and to clear the
matter Auditor Tweedalc has sent set
OF questions to the controller of the
Treasury, the compiling CT which ques-
tions has consumed the space of nearly
one month
The questions asked the controller are
but a step in the clearing-up process. for
Mr. Tweedale has on his desk question
from the office OF the superintendent
thirty-two pages in length and several
thousand miles in depth and profundity.
When the controller energies with an an
swer to the set Of questions asked by
Auditor Tweedale, then the schools may
start to get an answer to the record
breaking question which lies in state upon
Mr.. Tweedale's desk at the District build
ing.
The trouble lies in the fact that there
are SO many kinds of teachers In the
normal, high and mammal training schools
and so many ways that they arrived at
their present positions I'm the group A.
class Six, row of salaries from 81 no to
$1,SpO, and so many laws on the subject
of giving each of these teachers $40,
a year increase for each year Of teaching.
experience, etc, that no one seems to
know whether or not he or she Is entitled
TO an increase this year not. Many Of
the teachers believe that the last law on
the subject dated NAV III 1910. covers
the whole thing like charitable blanket.
But there are holes In that blanket.
says Auditor Tweedale. and the teachers
pay roll may be chilled in spots In conse-
quence.
Minimum Amount for September.
So the pay roil will be made UP In the
minimum amount this first month. n Is
explained. IL the controller does not make
an answer in time. and If there are any
deficits after his decision is made the,
will be paid right away on the following
pay roll.
provided that all normal. high and
manual training teachers then employ
ed or thereafter to he employed should
be placed in class six, group y. with
"a basic salary OF 81. 900. with longevity
increase OF 500 year but that they
should have received "A certain number
OF years OF experience in teaching Ia
accredited normal. high and manual
training schools. Many teachers In the
schools believe that all Increase In
salary will appear on the coming pay
roll. based on the operation OF this
law.
Auditor in Doubt.
| Auditor TwcedaIc saws he doesn't
know whcthor these salaries viii all
take a jump upward or moi. What -"
wants to know is whether this law
of last May affects all the teachers IN
the $1,000 500 group mentioned. or
does il affect only those who were not
placed under law Of May 2s. 1904.
which provided that teachers thereafter
employed in normal, high and manual
training schools should receive long"N-
ity pay in accordance with the number
of years of experience which they pos
sessed. And still another element which
adds To the general mixup is that there
are a lot OF veteran teachers in the
schools who came into this $1,000
81, 500 class under the well known
school organic act of 1906. not accord
ing to the number of years they bad
been teaching. but according 10 the
salary they had been receiving.
Mr.. Tweedale's Questions.
The questions which Mr.. Tweedaie
asked today of the controller were these
Whether teachers employed In the
normal, high and manual training schools
on May IS 1910. may now be placed Ia
FgrOup Nj, class six the Sl,W" 10 *i'SV
class) and receive their longevity increase
paw ($lOD a year increase) according 10
their number of years OF experience IN
teaching in accredited normal. nigh ana
manual training schools from the date OF
the passage OF the act of May Is 1910!
whether i'm placing teachers under the
act mentioned they are entitled to TINS
500 a year extra for each year OF teach
ing experience regardless of whether they
are satisfactory or notI
whether in placing teachers now en-
ployed i'm this class they must have
college degree or must be a normal scnooi
graduate with five years teaching eA-
nerience in a high school, and II SO Is nVe
wears experience to be deducted from the
normal school graduates. or are teachers
so placed entitled to 500 year M
crease for each year of teaching ex-
perience up to the s1.s0o maximum oil
that class?
Whether teachers who have been en-
ploved under the act of May 20, iSos.
which rated longevity pay by wears or
preyious experience, and from Whom the
controller took five years OF experience
where no college degree was forthcom-
ing. should be re-rated and given allow
ance for each year if teaching experience
not exceeding the maximum salary or
Ct SOOo'