Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-05-12
LONG REPORT FILED
ON TEACHERS PAY
Chairman Focht Carries Out
House D. C. Committee
Order on School Changes.

Chairman Focht of the House Dis
trict committee yesterday filed volum-
inous report as recently instructed
by the House District committee on
the bill to increase and standardize
by law salaries of teachers and other
school employees. This legislation is
really a school reorganization bill
The report points out that the COM
mittee on appropriations did not APP
prove any of the proposed increases
in teachers salaries e:;,, III me .ne o mnIEcy
was followed by the appropriations
committee OF the Senate. At the time
this policy Was adopted the Lehl-
bach reclassification bill was before
the House and has since passed the
House and is now before the Senate.
The Focht report emphasizes that
the Lehlbacn Redistribution Dill as
it passed the House and the teachers
salary and school reorganization Dill
supplement each other. The LEM
bach bill includes provision for sal
employees of the board of education:
Clerks and stenographers. medical IN,
spectors, dental inspectors. school
nurses janitors, engineers ard other
members of the janitorial stan. Con-
pensation for those employees IS no.
Provisions in Report.
The bill on which the report today
Is based provides adjusted compensa-
lion for teachers, school librarians.
princinals of schools. directors OF spe-
c!aI subjects and departments. com
munity center employees, assistant
superintendents. the superintendent
of schools and other educational EN-
ployes. This bill. together with the
7 scif ~
for adjusted compensation FOR all EN-
ployes of the school system.
The report carries the proposed new
salary schedule. 1t points out tnat
this bill authorizes the board OF ecu.
cation to classify and assign present
empIoyes to the new salary schedule.
1t provides for the abolition or the
titles director of peamanshlp anu
assistant director of pennanship.
and for the transfer of these enpioSes
TO the new salary schedule as teacher ;
In the normal school and director Oh
penmanship in the elementary schools.
The report empha sizes that Prov :
sion is made for the adjustment OF
salaries on July |. 1922. IN accoru-
ance with the anl"rHi " inc ''aHi'
salary. longevity allowance ana an
nual increase of compensation then
rsce;yrd. This provision is in &C
cordance with the general poiicy Ioi-
lowed in Redistribution legislation
of covering the bonus in the new
schedules.
New salary Schedule.
The bill provides for placing teach
crs in the new salary schedule IN ac-
cordance with the amount of expert
ence which they have had before ap-
nointment in the local schools, the
amount of experience being Limited 10
three years for elementary teachers
and four years for high school teach
era Authorization is given for cred
iting military service in longevity
placement.
The report also calls attention that
automatic annual increase of salary
is given for employees without posi- :,
tive action OH the part OF the board
of education This is continuance
of the present practice under the or
ganic act This Sc ,tion. however.
carries a special provision for with
holding the annual increase in COM
pensation from those teachers who
30 not render satisfactory service.
Such provision is now carried IN each
annual appropriation bill.
Provision is made that no teacher
who is advanced to a position OF
higher rank shall lose any salary by
such promotion. This might happen
in case the minimum salary of the
higher position is lower than the
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