The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-22
NEW TEACHERS
SALARY LAW
cfficiaI Text Of New Statute as Sent
by Iowa Superintendent OF
Public instruction TO
keokuk.
DETAILS OF NEW ACT
-seresfter 1t Will Require Somewhat
of a Mathematician to Make
Teachers Contract Com
ply with Code.

The Fellows teachers minimum
wage law in the final form as passed
by the legislature in its last hours
is hailed by those who have been ad-
yt,cating more advanced legislation IN
the matter of teachers salaries as a
decided victory.
The law formerly on the statute
hooks had practically become nopera-
tive. as the salaries, had In most cases
been in excess of the requirements,
cut were still too low to lnouce new
recruits to enter the field or many OIL
the old ones to remain in 1t.
AS published in detail by the state
department of public instruction the
act Is as follows:
Section l. That the law as 1t ap-
wears in section twenty-seVen hundred
seyenty-eight-b (2,77S-b). supplement
to the code, 1913, be and the same IS
hereby repealed, and that the law as
IT appears In section twenty-SeVen
hundred seventy-eight-c (2sTS-c). sup
plement to the code, 1913, be and the
same is hereby amended by inserting
a period in the third line thereof al
ter the word fixed" and by striking
from said section after the word
fixed" the following: For the grade
Of certificate held by such public
school teachers" and that the law as
II appears in section twenty-seven
hundred and seventy -eight-a (2,l7S-a),
supplement- to the code, 1913, Is here
BIZ repealed and the following enacted
in lieu thereof:
All teachers in the public schools
of this state, shall be paid for their
services a minimum wage OF not less
than the amounts hereinafter set
forth:
/. A teacher who has completed a
tour-year college course and received
degree from an approved college and
who is the holder OF a state certificate
or state diploma shall receive min
;nlun, wage of one hundred dollars
fs1O0o0) per month until successful
teaching experience of two years in
the public schools shall have been es-
tabIished. Thereafter, the minimum
wage shall be one hundred and twenty
dollars Cs120.000l per month
2. a teacher who has completed a
two-year course in education in state
normal school or other school whose
diploma is recognized as an equivalent
diploma by the state board of educa-
ton examiners and who shall be the
holder OF a state certificate, or who
shall be the holder of state certifi-
cate issued upon examination, shall
receive a minimum wage OF eighty
dollars (sS0o0I per month, until a
successful teaching experience Of two
years in the public schools shall have
been established. Thereafter. the min
imum wage shall be one hundred dol
lars Cs100.0o) per month
3. A teacher who has completed a
normal course in q normal training
high school and who has had less than
enc year Of successful teaching e1-
perience shall receive q minimum
wage Of sixty-five dollars (S65.0O) per
month. 4 teacher who has completed
n normal course in normal training
high school and who shall have had
one year OF successful teaching exper'
fence, and a teacher holding a first
grade uniform county certificate, shall
receive a minimum wage OF seventy
five CST5.00) per month until a sue
cessfuI experience of two years in the
Public schools shall have been estab
l!shed: thereafter, the minimum wage