Evening star., 1919-11-23
SEALED PAY SCALE
SUbM|TTEDBY HIGH
|zSCH00L TEACHERS
Advise RecIassifiers of In.
creases They Believe Should
! > Be Sought of Congress.

DC SUuSiil VI OUliSi VSos
The high school teachers of the
Dktrict yesterday afternoon submit
ted to the reclassification commission
sealed recommendations of the salary
INCREASES they believe should be
soight from Congress by the commits
sion.
Miss Alice Deal, who spoke for the
hi4cK school teachers before the COM
-xnItssion, explained last night that the
scale OF increases published yester-
daS are only those shat the teachers
>eIS. IN the event Congress does not
revise the school law of 1906
The increases which the teachers
prefer would be brought about by a
REVISION of the organic act OF 1905.
Mss Deal said the sealed recon-
mendations submitted to the commits
sion yesterday may be made pubic
tKe committee of teachers which
formulated them.
Does Not Offer Comparisons.
In submitting the sealed salary scale
Miss Deal did not submit salary scales
of other cities in comparison. She said
that was left to the grade teachers,
because their salaries always nave
been regarded as inadequate.
High school salaries, she said, were
regarded as adequate in 1905, and for
that reason the only thing to be con-
sioered in increasing them now is the
change in the cost Of living in WASH
ington since that year.
Mise Deal last night gave out sum-
mary of the teachers plan for reor-
ganization of the teaching force, as
proposed to the commission yesterday
afternoon.
Summary Is Given.
The summary follows:
Il. Readjustmnnts in present grades
-urner the present system the twelve
pbAaAR Of Acknowledgements one to
ttr<A primary instruction.; grades
four to eight, intermediate instruc-
ton; grades nine to twelve, high
school instruction.: with department
teaching introduced at the ninth
grade or first year of the present high
school.
Under reorganization the three
phases will be: Grades one to six. ele-
nlentary schools; grades seven to
nine. 1unior high school; grades ten to
twaIve, senior high school; with de-
partmental teaching introduced at the
seventh grade or first year of the ju-
Dier high school.
;ys. Readjustments in present normal
sQhools-The present normal schools,
on the ground work of a high school
education, train teachers for positions
in grades one to three or for primary
fnstruction.
SUnder reorganization the normal
schools will become teachers col
1eges, the work of the first two years
duplicating the academic instruction
~ the first two years of our best col
Nges. On this groundwork of two
Years OF college educations a normal
training course Of greater scope than
Is now offered will then be given. For
this purpose directors of subjects"
will be attached to the normal school
faculties.
Future normal graduates. ambi-
tious of taking the bachelor and
higher degrees offered by colleges and
universities while regularly employed
as teachers. will find the task easier
than the graduates Of the present
normal schools.
3. Unification of titles of certain
officers now doing similar grades of
work: The present directors, assist
ant directors and assistants to di-
rectors in grade schools, and heads
Of department in high schools, in the
scheme for reorganization, are classi-
meaning directors of subjects Of in
struction. The present scope Of their
work. in some instances, will be en-
1arged and readjustments made to
meet new conditions. All directors
will be attached to the faculties OF
the normal schools to give additional
practical professional training to new
teachers during their probationary
period.
The work of the present supervising
principals and grade principals will
be sredistributed and equalized on the
baAis of number Of pupils and teach
era. scortrolled, and the positions
classified as group principals" I'm
der reorganization all principals.
whether of groups in the grades or of
individual high and normal schools,
are classified under the one title,
principals"
A. Teachers-Qualificati Of teach
era and the details Of their examina-
tioh for entrance to the system or for
promotion by the present examining
boards are more carefully defined
thans under the terms Of the act of
1906. creating the present examining
boards.
a longer probationary period is pre-
scribed for new teachers and provi-
sion is made for giving them addi-
.tionl training, while on the job, along
practical professional lines by the
. faculties of the reorganized normal
schools.
Aids or laboratory assistants are
provided for teachers of science or
other laboratory subjects.
se.Central organization and admins
tration: The composition of the board
of education. in number, sex and race,
will remain as at present.
A superintendent of schools, in au-
thority, subject only to the board of
education, is retained.
The number of assistant superin-
tendents is increased from two to five,
the attempt being made to eQualize
the five positions on the basis of num-
ber of pupils, teachers and other en-
ployes controlled. Under the direction
of the superintendent each assistant
superintendent has sole charge Of his
department.
The business management of the
schools is concentrated in one DEPART
ment under one of the assistant su-
perintendents. The several phases of
business management are grouped
into business departments in the di-
rect charge of a chief officer known as
head of business department"
s. Summary: The proposed scheme
of Reorganization does not call for
radical changes in the present system.
but ~readjustments to meet the de-
mands made by the growth of the
system during the past thirteen years.
and to embody the accepted features
of educational practice developed since
the passage of the present school law
in 1906. These changes can only be
made by new school law.