The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-06-10
SAME SALARIES :. R
PAID TEACHERS
IN COMING YEAR
COUNTY BOARD WILL NOT IN
CREASE THE BUDGET TO BE
SUBMITTED TO JUSTUES.
TO- MAINTAIN HIGH STANDARD
investigation Made by the Members
Reveals Fact that the Pay Of Peda.
.sosues Cannot Be REDUCED. Without
lmpairing Schools.

(From Tuesdays Daily Herald)
There will be no increase in the
salaries of the teachers OF the county
this year, and If possible, the budget
will be reduced from that Of last year.
However, the latter contingency is
hardly to be expected, and it is safe
to say that Maury county will expend
on its schools, for the coming twelve
months approximately what was ex-}
pended during the past year.
The above in substance embodies
the decision reached at the meeting
of the county board OF education on
Monday. For an hour the members
of the board, behind closed doors,
frankly and fully discussed the situa-
ton that confronts them.ti They ,eN1
pressed appreciation of9finapeial Gon- !,
ditions in the county and admitted the
desire of the people for some relief
from oppressive tax b,rdensj county
state and national. But they werea
determined that so far as the board is
concerned there is to be mo- backward
step on educational lines I'M Maury1
county. a r.
The county's school board for fiji
teen years has been one Of progress
and advancement This record the
board is going to sustain. No one sup
ported the suggestion of reduction
OF the term. Nor would a single mem
Der agree that any action should be
taken that would impair the efficiency
OF the schools of the county. AL
months careful and painstaking in
vestigation on the part of the mem
bers of the board convinced them that
If salaries of eachers were materially |
reduced the best teachers would leave
the county, which always pays very
much smaller !. salafies' than many
counties IN the South. Requests have
already Resn received from many Of
the straagase and. most progressive
cehters Of the county for more money
for the SCHOOL budget. But it was de-
cided to turn deaf ear to all of these
requests, and to make the past years |
budget, as far as possible the stand
ard for the coming years expendi
lures. NJ 4
Teachers and local boards may |
therefore understand that it will be
useless to make application to the
cotinty board for an increased allow
ance for the coming, year as it cannot
be granted The board will furnish
the county court an itemized and care.
fully prepared estimate or budget at
the July term for school expenditures
for the coming year based substant-
tally on the existing scale of teachers
salaries. With the belief that the
court will approve this budget, and in
order to hold many of the best teach
ers in the county, the board proceeded
to approve certain selections that had
been made.
In the discussion of the salary ques-
tion. the members of the board ex-
pressed the, hope that there would be
a substantial reduction in. the board
charged teachers, The board bill has
advanced so rapidly in the past three
or four years that it has wiped out
larger portion OF the advances paid
the teachers il, With their farm pro;
ducts selling low the board believes
that the farmers can afford to board
the teachers for substantially less
than has been charged in the past.
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