Evening star., 1933-06-15
Plan Adopted for Operating
With $4,000 Less for
Teachers and Librarians.
PERSONNEL REDUCTION
CREATES NEW PROBLEM
Ways and Means of Providing Lost
Educational Service
Are Weighed.

Adopting six reports of its committee
Of the whole, the Board of Education
at its meeting late yesterday agreed on
the means by which it will undertake
to administer the school system within
the allowances of the slashed 1884
budget.
Confronted with the necessity of op-
Grating on 1000 less for teachers and
librarians salaries than was available
this year, the board agreed to the plan
its committee of the whole framed in an
executive session May 18, the first of
series of such conferences. The neces-
sary decrease in the number of teachers
and librarians will be effected, under
the adopted plan, by
l. The retirement of teachers and
librarians who reach their SEVENTEEN
birthday during the fiscal year 1888 and
whose services were continued to June
80 of that year, or OF teachers and
librarians when they reach their seven
tieth year during the 1884 school year.
2. The termination of the services of
temporary teachers by the 30th Of this
month.
3. The termination of the services
of teachers whose ratings are unsatis-
factory.
4. The closing out of any positions
that can be abandoned which may be-
come vacant through resignation, re-
tirement of death between now and
June 80, 1884.
Another Problem Arises.
While this plan solved the problem
Of demanded reduction in personnel. 1t
merely created another-that of ascer-
tanning ways and means of providing
educational services lost through the
reduction in personnel. Hence the
school board adopted its committee Of
the whole report of the executive ses-
sion of May 25, in which the superin-
tendent of schools is authorized and
directed to study the educational quail
f1cations and availability Of certain
teachers now employed with a view Of
their possible transfer to other neces-
sary teaching service. This study, the
report asserts, was to have been COM
pleted and its facts presented to the
board mot later than June 14"-yes-
terday. Delay in the passage of the
District appropriation bill and the press
of official business, however, prevented
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent,
from completing this study. He advised
the board yesterday that he will en-
deavor to complete the study in time
for presentation Of the data to the
board at its meeting week from today.
As outlined in the report of May rs,
additional teaching personnel will be
sought as follows:
l. From available regular teachers
whose classes are small and which may
be consolidated.
2. From kindergartens having teach
ers qualified for transfer.
8. From transfer of existing teachers
from one school to another to equalize
the teaching load
4. From the conversion Of vacant
available salaries in one department of
the school system for needed use in
another department.
S. From the IA salaries for the Taft
Junior High School pro-rated in 1888.
6. From increasing the teaching pro-
gram of teachers with a corresponding
modification of the assignment of extra
curricular activities.
7. From increasing the amount Of
teaching done OF heads of departments.
8. From transfer of teachers from
the departments of special subjects.
9. From transfer of teachers from
the supervisory departments.
10. From such other sources as
may commend themselves to the school
officials as they study the problem of
finding available qualified teachers for
classroom instruction"
Reports Cause Concern.
These were the only two reports con-
corning teachers and they constituted
the cause of most of the concern felt
hyT enI,0 AI .fE Eaia a1z -,
parent that drastic economies would
have to be effected.
The officers of the school system also
must be reduced in number and under
an order adopted by the board this will
be done 'by any or all of the following
methods:
l. BY the reduction of the expendi-
lures for 1884 represented by the sal
aries of two teaching principals at the
Bradley and the Ambush schools which
were consolidated during 1888
2. BY the retirement of officers at
their request.
8. BY the consolidation of teaching
principalships and the creation in their
stead of lesser number of admins
trative principalships.
4. BY the possible reassignment of
officers.
5. BY assigning heads of departments
an increased teaching program to pro-
vide f1rst-claSs technical instruction in
junior and senior high schools, and as
means of justifying possible transfer
OF funds to the appropriation for off,
GERS for teaching purposes.
3. BY closing out or reorganization
of any positions that can be abandoned
or reorganized which may become va
cant through re:ignation, retirement
or death up to the end of the current
fiscal year.
New Building Positions.
Faced with the necessity of providing
custodial service for new buildings to
be opened during 1884, the superin-
tendent was authorized by the school
board to study the present field with
a view to transferring men to those
new positions The sources from w...ck
such custodians may be secured include
those custodians whose duties are such
that they may be consolidated and from
the conversion of vacant available SAL
aries in one school for needed use in
another
The department of school attendance
and work permits will strive to live
within" its clashed appropriation through
savings from turnover and lapsed sal-
aries. by furloughs of employees without
pay and by any other means that may
commend themselves during a close
study of the field The turnover" pro-
duces savings through the separation
from the service through retirement,
resignation or death of employees at
advanced salaries and the appointment
of new employees at the basic salaries in