The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-24
ANNOUNCEMENT IF S35,0OO CUT MADE Board of Education Makes
 Retrenchment SEVERAL CHANGES
Assistant Superintendents Made Ac- tive Principals and Vocational School Abolished-Number of
 Teachers May Be Released

That in order to demonstrate a spirit of cooperation with the commission in the retrenchment policies. the Board of Education had arranged a cut in that de- partment Of ss5,o0o was the announce ment of President John L. Parker.
 He said 1t was the intention of the board to do away with such features of educational work as would least impair the efficiency of the educational work bere and that he believed finally the cut would not cause any real suffering.
 The board will assign two assistant su- perintendents to positions of principals, thus saving the salaries of the two prin- cipals involved. The elementary yoca- tional school will be abolished. This work has been at the Paul Hayne school.
 The board will also abolish the positions of engineers and mechanics so far as pos sible affecting q saving of several thou sand dollars per year. The number of pupils assigned to each teaher will be increased, and by this step some teach CTS employed will be released from ser vice. The board will postpone certain improvements which were under contem- platon.
 It was stated that the net saving would he for the forthcoming year s35.0Qo less than the cost of operation for the year past It was stated that the Board of Education had ben informally in consult tation with the commissioners and 1t was made plain to the board by President EA- um and Judge Lane that retrenchment was absolutely necessary. The voluntary cut was thereupon decided upon.
 President Parker announced npon the authority of the board that an uncompro- missing determination was manifest to keen the standard of the Birmingham school up to the present efficient point and that no possible cut would be made which would injure the service rendered
 The commissioners will meet with the board within few days, at which time the question of the schools will be taken m. It is the determination of the com missioners to diminish every possible ex. pense of the educational department such as has been put into effect in othel civic departments. No disposition. how ever, Is manifested to decrease the eff ciency of the system here.
 President Parker issued an officia statement announcing the cut, which i. as follows;
 Parker's Statement
 "The Board of Education of the city has held an important meeting pur suant to the call of the president. A | the last regular meeting of the board resolution had been passed pledgfnE the cooperation of the board with thu city commissioners In their efforts tt relieve the city of it's burden of in debtedness, and appointing specia committee to consider aid to repor such measures of retrenchment as ma, be enforced without too seriously i'm pairing the efficiency of the publi' schools of the city. The committe
 briefly outlined some of the more i'm | perative demands of the schools for tn next year; She >congested condition o l the Central High school has become s' intolerable as to require at the begin 1 ming of the next session the establish ment of branch or junior high schoo for the large entering class of 300 nex September. Provision for this class wa
 deferred for future consideration. Tn necessity for repairs upon large mum Der of the school buildings was als'
 reported but deferred. The committe
 regarded 1t as nnwise to recede from it policy of continuing it's departments O manual training and drawing, voca music and physical culture. but recon mends the temporary reduction of tn number of special teachers employed in these departments. The committee with the view of cooperating with tn commissioners in their efforts at re l ltrenchment. agreed upon the followinI