The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-29
TEACHERS GET NO
SALARY LIFT NOW
School Board Decides Not to
Distribute Fund as Council
Ordered.
THINKS DIVISION UNFAIF
Fear Also Expressed That Ar
rangcnent May Cause rur-
moil i'll School System.

In view of the fact tina, a resolution
mittee of the City Council appropr-
atinS $4,000 to raise tho pay of school
teachers other than III the white clc-
mcntary grades. the City school Board
last night decided not TO distribute at
this time the s2I.5Oo carried in he AN
nual appropriation ordinance for in
creasins tho pay OF white elementary
women teachers.
In lieu of the request OF tn: Schooi
Board and the recommendation of tho
Committee on Finance that a sum be
provided in the budget from which
merltorious Increases might b. made
in such classes Of teachers a, are be-
licved TO be undcrpaid at present The
Council. AT the instance oil the Whit,
adopted the Pollock Unllnut amend
mcnt. granting the sntre years in
crease OF s21,500 to the e.5 VIII l. elc-
mentary women teachers, Jeavins the
2e3 other teachers with no increase
whatever
Realizing that The color,d teachers
janitors, principals and many of the
male teachers, as We'll as some vi
those teaching at the High school. arc
cd the elementary white teachers
would make their salaries out OF pro-
portion TO what was being paid &c
those teaching higher branches and
more difficult subjects, a supple mentary
resolution appropriations $4,000 addl
tional was offered in tho Council AID
is now pending in the ordinance Com
mittce, where the hrh, OF the white
elementary women teachers was pr'nci-
ii, ,ls. ~
an Investigation of ths public schools
originated
The school Board at its meeting last
nigh, received an official copy OF the
appropriation ordinance. with the vari-
Gus Items for schools. including the
item Of S2I,500 for increasing the white
elementary women teachers along a
proposed scale ranging over ;hc iirsi
six years OF service. The city Attor-
ncy has held that the power OF hNine
the salaries of teachers was In the
School Board. not in ths Council, and
that any such action as that attempted
by the Council III amending the budget
could only be advisory. Pending ac-
ton on tho further appropriation oil
$1,000. and To prevent the disruption
Of the schools by gross inequalities III
pay for the various grades of s>rv!cc
tho board ordered that the extra ap-
uted at this :ime.
Superintendent i. 4. C. Chandler re-
ported an enrolment In thu public
schools in excess of the entire enrol
mon, of last year OF LIS pupils
1t was decided that the dedicn ton
Of the new Arcnts public school build
ing, at PIN. and China Streets. VII
take place on Saturday afternoon
April l3, at 1850 o'clock, y flag ano
Bible will be presented by the Junior
Order OF United American Mechanics
The school BOARD received com
munication from the Board of H:altf
recommending that tho period OF quar-
antinc on account OF measles be re-
d1,ced from three weeks 10 twelve days
which recomm endation was Apr oVet
by The school BOARD so far as II al
fccts pupils and teachers of the schools
The nrst session of the special com
mittee appointed to investigate th'
public schools viii be held this aft'r
noon a, i:30 o'clock