Evening star., 1933-04-09
CUTS REPRESENT
l3 TEACHERS PAY
School Board Attempting,
However, to Avoid Expe-
dient of DismissaIs.
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comparison Win the current apprO-
priation, the actual cost of these sal.
aries as computed by the financial Of
fee of the school system will be $6,436,.
152.42 This figure Is reached by add
ing the actual pay rolls up to February
20, 1888, which were $3,874, 1886, Il
the estimated pay rolls from March 81
to June 80, 1888, which were $2.561.-
e22.56. Thus. by subtracting the actua
cost of the pay rolls from the appro-
priation an estimated balance or saw.
ing Of $103,611.5s remains as of June
80. This balance is exclusive, oi
course, Of the 1-3 per cent salary re-
duction of the 1888 economy act
which is being impounded.
s13I,440 Lost in Salaries.
Now the dollar for dollar relation
between the 1888 appropriation and the
1884 estimates Is shown by the follow
ing computation. The national bud
get-balancing act authorized a Is per
cent salary cut. Fifteen per cent OF
the 1888 appropriation would be $780,
s64 and by deducting that sum from
the current appropriation, it is shown
that the 1888 teacher salary item re-
duced the same basis as the 1884 item
stands at S. ,558, 800. Deducting from
librarian estimates there Is a difference
between the 1888 and 1884 salary items
Of $l31,44
In other words, the operating ex-
penses for teachers and librarians in
1894 must be reduced by $131 ,440 be-
low the cost for teachers and librarians
IN 1888.
Now, Dr. Ballou explains, If a saw
ing of approximately $100, 900 can be
effected in 1884 as it is being effected
this year (this saving being the differ
ence between the actual cost of teach
ing service and the appropriately the
necessary reduction will be lowered
from $l31,44o to approximately
$4,000.
But. the financial demands on the
estimate for teachers and librarians
for 1884 will include the cost of cer-
tain part-tine or, as they are oficially
termed, 'pro-rated" positions in 1888,
and certain new positions required by
the opening of new buildings. The
pro-rated positions are those which are
established after the school year has
buildings. These positions will require
In 1894 q total Of $15,220. They in
clude four class &c teachers for i've
months at the Taft Junior High
School; 10 class "a teachers for five
months for the same school: one class
IA teacher for the Crummell School for
five months, and two class Ia teachers
for four months at the Harrison
School
$72,50o For New Positions.
New positions demanded by the OPEN
ing of new schools now under con-
struction and by the anticipated ex-
traordinary increase in enrollments in
1894 will cost an additional $72,500.
Interestingly enough, this particular
item which was carried In the Board
Of Education's original estimates for
the Budget, the House and Senate Ap-
preparations Committees, and the House
and Senate themselves, and 1t never
was in controversy even among the
conferees who considered the 1894 Dis
triet bill in the last session Of Congress.
This $72,5o0 sum includes nine class
Ia teachers at $500; five class "a
teachers at 81 800; nine class &c teach
ers at $4,000; IL class "a teachers at
$4,000; one class 3A instructor at
$1,000, and one class IL assistant pro-
fessoY at $4,000, all to become existant
September 1, 1888.
These new teachers are wanted for
the following places in the school sys-
tenn: Two for the Bancroft School adj
dition; one for the new Keene School;
two for the new Hardy School In Fox
hall Village, and four for the Twining
School Two more were sought for the
new Phelps School, but 1t now develops
that old Phelps Vocational School will
not vacate its present building, as was
anticipated, by February /, 1894. Two
more also were requested for the new
Logan School addition, but this struc-
ture was stricken from the bill along
with every other school construction
item.
Other New Positions.
Other new positions demanded by
the development of new classes in the
Junior high schools and by the transfer
Of eighth grade pupils to ninth grade
status will be needed by the individual
Junior high schools as follows: Powell,
two; Macfarland, two; Paul, one; Deal,
one; Eliot, one; Taft, one; M Street,
three, and Browne, three.
The senior high schools will require
IL new teachers to provide for in
creased enrolment and adjustments
beginning next September. Roosevelt
and other high schools according to
specific needs, three; Western, two;
Armstrong one; Cardozo, three, and
Dunbar, two.
And the two teachers colleges will
require additional faculty members by
virtue of increased enrollments and the
demands Of the standards of accred-
tied colleges. The Wilson Teachers
College will require one class 3A in
structor, and the Miner Teachers Col
lege will require class II assistant
professor
And 80, DR.. Ballou says:
by way Of summary, the estimated
appropriation for 1884 must carry ad-
ditional financial demands as follows:
]. From reduced appropria-
ZION ........ ...'.'. .SlSI ,94o
2. From pro-rated positions. .. 1920
3. From new positions neces-
STATED by the opening Of
new buildings, the COM
pletion OF quota Of build
ings opened in 1888, and
? increased enrolment -. 72,500
IOtal .............. .SZIS,loU
"This summary shows that exclusive
OF the IS per cent reduction in COM
pensation of teachers and librarians, II
WILL DC utCcSSdly W lllu ways dliu
means OF operating the school system
in 1884. with s2ls,l60 less than was
available in 1888"
Senate Hearings Set.
When the Senate conducts its hear.
lngs on the District budget beginning
tomorrow, practically the entire mem
beYship Of the Board Of Education and
most Of the boards staff OF officials
will attempt TO portray to the men,
bers of the Upper House the absolute
need for an increase in the school bud
get They will use the facts presented
here as the basis Of their arguments
and, presumably, they will undertake
to outline to the Senate the drastic
alternatives to an increase in the bud
get.
Prominent among suggested mean,
o6 operating under the reduced bulge
- q plan for shortening the school yea
IN order to deprive teachers Of &