Evening star., 1922-01-22
Provides Raise in Salaries
Denied in Budget-Goes
to Congress This Week.
WOULD GET
$1,400 to $1,000 A YEAR
Gathering of Statistics Shows Dis
trict Would Rank Ninth in
List of so Large Cities.

1 ,arT. ing substantial increases in
| pay for officers, teachers and other
! educational employees of the public
school system, the new salary bill
| drafted by school authorities and the
board of education will be submitted
| early this week to the District COM
mlttees of the Senate and House.
FINISHING touches were put on tho
measure yesterday afternoon by Super
| lntendent Ballou and other officials.
preparation of the bill has taken
| many months. Statistics of the pre-
Vailing wage scales in fifty large
cities Of the United States were
STUDIED even before the tentative
| draft Of the measure was undertaken.
In its completed form the bill. IL an
proved by Congress. will place the
| Washington school system ninth from
the Top OF the list of the fifty large
cities as to salaries paid teachers and
! officials.
The bill provides the salary in
creases denied the District teachers
| In the school budget for the fiscal
year of 1928, and, according to school
ohclals, is a step in the direction of
UNIFORM pay scale for the public edu-
cational employees. Officials also en-
| phasize that the salary legislation
will offer future TO the teaching
profession of Washington,
$2,4OO Maximum for Group b,
Ip the new salary schedule teach.
ers Of kindergarten and elementary
schools are given a basic salary Of
$l,40o year and an annual longevity
! increase. of 500 to a maximum OF
| $4,000 for group A: for group B they
will receive basic salary of s2,lo0
and an annual longevity increase Of
| 800 to a maximum of s2.40O
The normal and senior high school
teachers for group A, the entrance
group, will receive $500 basic, with
an annual longevity increase of 500.
| to maximum of $4,000. Group b will
| receive basic salary of s2.70o. with
an annual longevity increase Of 500,
| to a maximum or $4,000.
Junior high school teachers will be
appointed to either of the foregoing
SiOupS, Will odinc SdldElcS- 4cdSHs
| ing principals of buildings of from
| four to seven rooms will be classed
| with the elementary and kindergarten
| teachers. group b, while principals
| of buildings from eight TO fifteen
| rooms will receive basic salary of
| $1,000, with sl00 annual longevity in
| crease, to a maximum of $500. Ad-
ministration principals of buildings
| over sixteen rooms, or grade manual
| training schools and Americanization
schools, are given basic salary Of
| $500, with an annual longevity in
crease of 500, to a maximum Of
$4,000.
$4,5OO for Principals.
| Heads of departments are to get
$3,1OO basic, with an annual longevity
| increase of 500. to a maximum Of
s3,4O0. Principals of normal schools
and supervising principals will get
$4,000 basic, with an annual longevity
| increase of 500, to a maximum OF
| $4,000.
| Junior high school principals will
get a basic salary of S3,5UU, with an
annual longevity increase OF $l00.
| to a maximum of $4,000.
The salary of the superintendent OF
schools is to be $4,000 year; first
assistant superintendent, $4,000, and
| assistants, $4,000. The assistant 70
the director of the community center
department is to receive s1.soo a year.
| other salary figures are: ATTEND.
| ance officers, s1,500 year; school
nurses and prophylactic dental opere
ators, $500 a year; medical inspec-
TORS and dental operators, $1,000
wear. and dental inspectors, $1,000 .
year.
The school board is authorized in
the new salary legislation to classify
the school service into elementary.
normal, Junior and senior high
schools, and to appoint teachers at
the minimum figures of the various
classes, the first year of all teachers
| being probationary. The teacher re-
ceiying an unsatisfactory rating will
| automatically lose longevity incrs-
| ment.
Upon being promoted from one
class to another, teacher is not to
receive a lower salary in the higher
group. The bill is to provide for a
separate board Of examiners for the
i white and colored schools, the super
intendent of schools being the chair
man Of each.
Provides for Substitutes.
Not less than four nor more than
six members will constitute each OF
the boards of examiners, of which
the executive secretary for the board
for white schools is to receive q
salary ranging from $4,000 to $500.
The assistant superintendent in
charge Of colored schools will act ~
secretary for the colored board. -
The salary legislation also provides
for the appointment Of substitnts
teachers. A provision for the crea-
tion Of a corps of trained substitute
teachers was included in the school
budget for the fiscal year of 1923,
but was eliminated by, either the Conn
missioners or the budget bureAp.
Annual increase in pay is not to b