The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-18
Trying to Make the
 Educational Dollar
 Give Dollars Worth

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 It will cost the city approximately the same amount of money to run the schools for the year 1922-1923. Surely it will cost no more and probably less through the policy of rigid economy that the education board has adopted in compliance with the policy of the administrator of Mayor Fred At water.
 Deddcting the operating expenses of the four High schools and the City Normal school the cost Of maintain ing the grade school plant in instruc- ton and maintenance came to Sl,1l5,- 256.51. The cost of maintaining the same plant will not come to any more at the end of the present school year, educational authorities say.
 They point out that with the addeo half hour to the school day and the lengthening of the school year to 2Oo days. more intensive use of the school plant will be realized and the boys and girls of the city will receive the greater benefit, that of education which the majority of them so sorely need.
 The city spent s34O. .543.21 to main tain the High schools most intensively used for higher education. This sum school teachers here are paid as high salaries as in any city of the United States. In it's exhaustive invesuga- tions the Board of Education found
 
 for a. dollar in the High schools. It developed that some teachers were teaching four hours. some five ana some five and one-haf. These teach CTS were all receiving the same pay, the board found
 It further developed that some teachers were teaching in other 1nstl- tutions when their work was finished for the day in Bridgeports Hlsh schools. Every member of the board agreed that the system was decidedly unfair to the taxpayer, the city, the pupil and the teaching body itself The remedy was the staggered system which is rapidly being perfected ana adapted in the High Schools faeora ble to all concerned. xThe city will now receive it's just value for it's money and economy will be the result that is inevitable.
 It is estimated that the same amount of money, if not a much reduced sum, will be needed to run the high schools this year. A new east side high school, the site for which has already been purchased, will be erected by the time the next annual report of the secre- tary is ready.
 tain evening schools so greatly taken girls of the city who have the initia- tive to self betterment and wider This money has been wisely spent. With a larger enroll
  courses added the board will probably spend more to maintain the evening schools.
 It will be spent willingly but the board has so planned the program of the day schools that there never again will be need of many evening schools to take care of pupils who in their younger days were rushed schooling because of short hours. These young men and women were forced to leave school when they be- came of working age or because of pecuniary circumstances in their homes.
 Boys and girls who will be forced to leave school at an early age are going to receive fair treatment and good education under the longer school day and year. They will not be forced to resort to night schools, educators say. Will the politicians force the creation of night sch by tampering with the program as laid down and witch is acclaimed by the leading educational authorities of the country as one of the best that will exist? Tha tis another question that Is being asked today among the citf- zens of the city with the interest of their children at heart.
 The overhead cost of the education board was $119,943.36, MT. Wyn- Soop's report shows. The grand total for maintenance of day schools was s1 ,48s, s,773.39. The total amount of money expended by the board came to S1,681,3O7.1S.
 The total operating expense at tached to the 34 grade schools of the city, this cost including instruction. auxiliary supplies, hygiene, operation and maintenance, shown in MT. Wynkoop's report is as follows: Prospect ............s4 s46,S36S4 Jefferson .......-........$ $34,145.36 Elias Howe S44, ,161.85 Longfellow ............S .S51,112.43 Jackson S15,11 ............ $24,692 % TRY ING-Take Two. fiji
 Washington S30,874S4; Wheeler $31, ,5S1.73; Grand street $1S,4623O: Columbus $33,17S.73; Webster S32,- SS5.49; Shelton $4S,S16.41: Island Brook s9,316.S2; BeardsIey s25, ,S9SS4; Staples S34.919.32; Barnum S49,- 592.72; Garfeld $35,SS7.7O; Kossuth (grade) $11,111.67; Wa1tersviNe ST.