The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-03-25

ing the school year of 1919-1920 have
been as follows:
Loeb Lynn ...............S 1o.UO
| Dodson 1900
hlCZHllller oOO'VO
| hempJOn 15O.VV
Bloomington ................ 1OU.0O
Vindex 1900
| oteyer ................. oo.UV
| lOIal .......... -. 95I1'UV
We cannot expect them to be less
during 1920-1921.
90 Under the heading "For mainte-
nance and support of schools" the
amount of 81 200 is asked as opposed
! to the $500 of last year, it being
! planned to pay the stenographer and
clerk a salary of 5000 each. Much Of
the work done in the offices of the
| Board of Education grows out of
striving to carry out the type of pol
icies determined by the financial limits
| as well as ever increasing require
ments placed upon the Office, many of
| which have come about through more
eXacting State control. Furthermore,
securing provisional certificates for
teachers so that great number of
| schools may be open, through which
labors many schools are open that
would not otherwise be open, the late
opening and early closing of many
| schools, the employing of many un-
| trained and beginning teachers, the
| collecting and complying of various
| types of data, and the maintaining of
highly efficient and systematic
method of recording all financial re-
ceipts and disbursements, impose labor
which, cannot be done satisfactorily
without necessary clerical assistance.
This 81 200 means only a monthly sal
airy of $50. Certainly it should not
be less.
! (4) Under the same heading the
amount of 81 200 is asked for an at
tendance officer. While the 1918 leg
islature made it optional on the part
of a county to have such an officer,
| the State Superintendent on the floor
of the State Senate this winter made
| the statement that he believed it to
| have been mistake and that a bill
would be introduced making it man.
datory to employ school attendance
officer in each county. We are of
, the opinion that an efficient attendance
officer cannot be secured for less than
/ 81 200 one half of which is to be paid
by the State.
| 90 Teachers Salaries, white, ARE
set forth in detail in certain papers
herewith submitted Exhibit b, en-
titled List of teachers in service in
/ the schools of Garrett county, Mary
land, as of March l, 1920, the list in
GLIDING additional data as given in the
! heading of each column" The inf0r-
nation therein submitted, certified to
! by the annual committee of audit as
designated herewith, is in great meas
ure self-explanatory, it involving the
| following information in connection
with each teacher therein listed:
(a) Teachers as listed are only ten
/ tatively listed as in employment dur
ing the school year of 1920-1921, and
not carrying with the listing definite
employment without question during
! 1920-1921 of the particular individual
I listed, this basis being the most sat-
! isfactory basis that occurs to us by
which the information necessary for
your guidance may be placed before
you,
(b) Present grade of certificate.
(c) Years Observation-Disclosures
I'D Present annual salary-1919-
| 1920.
(e) Probable grade of certificate
that may be secured for 1920-1921, is
| based upon available information.
| While the estimate made in a partic-
ular case may not be correct, yet it is
believed that the percentage of the
| grade of their certificates in that par
ticular group will be constant be-
| tween what is now estimated and what
will later exist as an actual fact.
(f) Number given as years expert
ence-1920-1921 in particular instan-
ces following the names in the lists,
must necessarily numerically follow
| from continuation in the service as a
| teacher.
(g)The "New Annual Salary-1920-
1921" as set forth in the list referred
| to, depends in the particular instances
upon the grade of certificate secured
by the particular individual valid dur
ing the approaching school year, avail
able information already referred to in
paragraph (e) being used as basis
for arriving at the grade of the certif-
icate as likely to be held. The same
/ explanation may be made in reference
to the "New Annual Salaries for
192O-1921" as was for the probable
grade of certificate that teacher may
hold during 1920-1921, constant" etc.
Moreover, based upon the data given
therein and as explained herewith, ac-
cording to the new teachers State
wide salary bill, being known as Sem
ate Bill No. 81, copy of which is
herewith sent you Exhibit c., as in
troduced by Senator Disharoon in the
General Assembly, 1920, and seeming
certain to become law without any
material amendments, its require
ments, as we now understand them,
would entitle the individual listed
with the credentials that they may
present and as explained herein, to
the annual salary during 1920-1921, as
is given in the column of the list re-
ferred to. Therefore, the above is Of
| fered as reasons for the increases ask
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