The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-03
"a TEACHERS ON
.PENSIONED LIST.
RECEIVED S7,325.
DURING THE YEAR
North Dakota's Retirement
: Fund Extension to Other
Tutors Is Sought
HIGHER TEACHERS
NOW ELIMINATED
About $4,000 in Fund,
With Nearly All IN
Liberty Bonds

| The need of extending to teachers
in higher educational institutions
the benefits now accruing to teachers
in the common and graded schools
of the state under the teachers PEN
| sion act, is set forth in an article in
The School Of Education Record, is
sued by the school OF education of
/ the University of North Dakota.
Teachers in the higher institutions
are not now permitted to qualify
under the provisions Of the pension
act, and the writer Of the article in
the educational magazine, proposes
that the problem of extending such
benefits be given early consideration
by the state.
North Dakota's teachers pension
act has been in operation since July
j, 1918, and since that time "A teach
ers are in the roll of pensioned in
structors, and annuities range from
$3.50 to $3.50. Fourteen of these re-
.ceive the minimum and three receive
the maximum.
During the year. 1917. these 2t an
nuitants received $7,325.s5. OF those
now on the roll, 13 were rural teach
ers and II were village and city
teachers, when they became an
nuitants.
The following are the receipts and
expenditures Of the fund for the year.
1917:
From county tuition fund. ST., 021,30I
From assessments and 9TH
err sources ...,,.....'''' 25,0sS.Sf
Total ..............-.... 40,616,67
Expenditures.
Paid in annuities .....$ 1855
Refunded to persons who
discontinued teaching in
North Dakota ......... 419S6
For administration Sl945I
The total amount in the fund at
present is approximately 500, 0O0, Of
which sum 500, 900 has recently beenl
invested in Liberty bonds.
THE administration of this law is
in good hands," says the writer of
the article. .Experience lis indicating
more and more clearly that the plank
is good, not merely because teachers
need it or deserve 1t, but because |
the schools need it and demand it."
Our law contains the provisions |
which, after many earlier expert /
ments, have been found to be the
wisest and most practicable" says
the writer. "The same type of law is |
now in force in many other states, |
several of them having adopted It'll
since its enactment in North Da-
kota.
The Educational Institutions.
when the law providing for the
and annuities of teach
ers in the common. graded. and high 4
schools of the state was enacted. il Il
was not made to include teachers in
he educational institutions--or even u
the state superintendent of public Il
nstruction-who could comply with II
and fulfill all the prescribed condi- II
ions or such others as might be
provided. 1t was then probable that
lther agencies like the Carnegie II
would come to the res
,ue But since that time this pros
Dect has disappeared. Why should
not those in the educational institu-
ions, or others, like the state super II
who have spent twenty
,r twenty-five OF the best years of
heir life in the services of the state,
become benehciaries also of the re-
irement fund? 1t could be guarded
n every possible way and still leave
DOM and opportunity for the retire.
nent, on a small allowance. of the
ew in the educational institutions,
Who comply with all the conditions,
IS well as of the few who do so in
he common school system. Here Is
problem for the future and an OPP
lortunity for doing justice"