San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-30
FLAT RAISE Of.
T $3.50 GIVEN TO
ALL TEACHERS
Payroll for Current Year
Will Be Increased
$334,000.
is VOTED MONDAY
New Salary Schedule
4 Adopted With One Dis
senting Vote.
is VOTED MONDAY

Teachers in the San Antonio pub
| lie schools will receive n flat raise
of $50 for the current yeas pursuant
F to action taken by the school board
at called meeting Monday after
noon at which the salary schedule for
1924 was adopted with but one
dissenting vote.
The payroll for the current year
will call for an increase of approxi-
mately 1881, 900 over the expenditures
last year. As the payroll now stands,
| $1,197, 90S will be required to meet
| the salaries of teachers and principals
during the coming year, but the ten
tative budget provides for an addition
al $4,000 for the salaries of those
who will be appointed to the staff dur
| ing the current year and to meet other
expenses not anticipated by the budget:
| The increase covers the salaries OF
about 200 new teachers.
Teachers and elementary school
| principals who have acquired bac-
calaureate degrees will be given an
additional increase of 500 in their
annual salaries, and, if "A teacher,
above the $50 flat raise. Elemen-
tary principals will be paid upon the
basis of the classification of their
schools.
According to Education.
Principals in the first class which
includes elementary schools of an
enrolment of 800 or more, will be
paid $500 for the current year. Those
in the second class which includes
elementary schools containing an en-
rollment of less than 800 pupils will
receive q salary of S2iOO.
Since the salaries of elementary
school principals have been arbitrarily
fixed that in the majority of cases
represents an increase of more than
$3.50 over their salaries last gear.
they will not profit by the flat raise.
The salaries of principals of junior
high schools have already been adopted
by the school board. Since the junior
high schools plan of instruction was
inaugurated for the first time this
year, their salary schedule for this
year can not be based upon that Of
any preceding year.
New teachers will be paid. it was
explained. uponsthe basis of the ten
tatiyely-adopted new permanent salary
schedule toward which the school
ard is cautiously approaching. Re-
Enumeration of teachers under the pro-
jected schedule will be bas ID upon
educational qualifications.
Adoption of the salary schedule for
1923-1924 does not carry with It the
adoption of q permanent schedule, it
was emphasized repeatedly at the
board meeting before the question.
Not Sure of Money.
Although the school boaru has APP
proved the basic idea of the schedule
vet it is reluctant to adopt it with no
assurance that school funds would be
sufficient to meet the payrolls when
they reached the Maximum under the
schedule within a few gears.
The schedule as adopted for the
current year, however, indicates that
the school board is gradually placing
the school system under the tenta-
tive salary schedule based entirely
upon educational qualifications of the
teachers. :. -.
Sam Houston senior higheschool will
not be reorganizeG until the beginning
of the school tyear next September. il
was indicated by the school board
members. Monday afternoon. Upon the
motion of Graham Dowdell. seconded
by Henry Rogers, the school board
went on record as favoring the. or
ganization of third senior high
school The motion was opposed by
Mrs. c. f. Hoff.
Prior to the placing of the motion
before the board. the members grew
warm in their discussion of the adj
visibility of recognizing the Sam
Houston high school.
Hold Up Milan Project.
Two plans for the relief of the
senior high schools we're put before
the board by DIR. Rhodes. One called
for the erection of permanent in
>dustrial building at Breckenridge high
school. Domestic science and manual
training classes now occupying the
lower floor of the main building could
be moved to the new building, thus
providing additional classrooms for
strictly academic work. The cost Of
erecting a permanent building AT this
time would be prohibitive, DR.. Rhodes
EXPLAINED.
The other plan favored by DR..
Rhodes snd the majority of the school
board members, provides for repair
and construction work at the Ben
Milan elementary school. All con-
construction work at that school should
be jnf = temporary nature. the board
agreed. 1t was pointed out that if a
temporary senior high school should
be established on that site. Government
Hill patrons would have reason to be-
.lieve that permanent senior high
school would be situated in that vicin-
ity in the future.
Following the decision of the board
to re-organize the Sam Houston senior
high school next September. all bids
for The repair of the schol at tlis
time were rejected. Repair work at
the Ben Milan school will not start
until the elementary grades now using
those buildings have been moved to
teh new elementary, school building
now being erected in that vicinity.