The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-13
PLAINS SCHOOL
SALARY SYSTEM
Supt. KOehIer Tells How
New Revenues are Added
DAMASCUS GETS THE LARGEST
AMOUNT AND BETHANY THE
SMALLEST.

ne mlulHum salary law passed
by the legislature of Pennsylvania in
1905 in the interest of better educa-
t1on and more competent instructors
is reiterated in the new school code,
and in accordance with it's require
ments County superintendent j. j.
Koehler on Monday sent in the
blanks that mean an addition of sew
eral thousand dollars to the revenues
of this district.
Under the terms of the law, the
superintendent must certify to the
| superintendent of public instruction
! the number of teachers with the sal
ary paid to each in the year begin
| ming with the first Monday in June
1905, as well as the number of
teachers, with the salary of each
teacher and the length of the school
term in the year for which the re-
port is made
Under the act of 1905, salary of
all teachers holding normal school
| certificates was fixed at a minimum of
$50 a month and the state makes
good the difference between that and
the sum they were then receiving.
When seen Tuesday morning by a
Citizen man Superintendent Koehler
explained the workings of this sys-
| tenn:
=" We get s. per month for each
provisional teacher and SIS per
month for all teachers holding certi-
ficates above the provisional, pro-
viding the salaries in 1906 did not
exceed $35 for the same position.
" The school board pays the salary
| OF their teachers out of the district
fund, and the minimum salary ap-
preparation comes with the general
appropriation next July, 1912.
" The largest sum is for Damascus
district, which will amount to $143O.
The smallest sum is Bethany which
will receive S35.'
The sections from the school code
governing the minimum salary ques-
ton are as follows:
Section 1910. The minimum
salary of every teacher in the pub
lie schools of this Commonwealth
holding professional or a State
certificate, who has taught success
fully for two years and presents
certificate to that effect from
the proper superintendent, shall
be fifty dollars ($50.00) per school
month. The minimum salary of
every other teacher in the public
schools of this Commonwealth
shall be forty dollars ($40.0O) per
school month.
Section 1912. The provisions of
THIS Act liking the minimum sal
aries of teachers shall not apply
TO any teacher engaged only in
teaching a night school, or to one
who is engaged for only a part of
the school day or school month.
Section 1918. The increase in
all salaries made necessary by the
minimum salaries herein fixed
over the salaries paid in each
school district in this Common
wealth in the school year begin
ming on the first Monday of June,
one thousand nine hundred and
six (1906) shall be paid out of
the State appropriation for pub
| lie schools.
Section 2SO5, In order that
any district may receive its share
of the state appropriation on ac-
count of the minimum salary as
required in this Act, the president
and secretary of the board of
school directors of each school dis
trict, where any teachers salary
is greater than the corresponding
salary paid for the school year
beginning on the first Monday of
June, one thousand nine hundred
and six, shall in each year on or
before the first day of October,
! certify under oath to the proper
county or district superintendent
on blanks prepared by the Super
intendent of Public Instruction
the number of teachers with the
salary paid to each in the year be-
| ginning on the first Monday in
! June, one thousand nine hundred
and six, as well as the number of
! teachers with the salary of each
| teacher and the length of the
school term in the year for which
the report is made