The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-04-21
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Legislative Enactment Pros
vides For Graded Cut
In Salaries

In Salaries
The Board of Education met
in regular session on Tuesday,
April IL. Those present were
Fred Lewis, President; Mrs.
Eleanor J. Moore, Vice-Presi-
dent, and J. e. Crothers.
The minutes of the regular
meeting of March 18th were
read and approved, and sundry
bills ordered paid.
1t was decided that since the
field at North East School
would be ready for the Field
Meet to be held there, that this
Meet should be held there on
the date set for it.
The County Superintendent
stated that he had not yet re-
ceived a report from the At
torney concerning settlement
of the status of Oak Grove
School, No. II, District 5.
The Board ordered that
funds of the Board of Educa-
ton of Cecil County, Md, be
placed in The National Bank of
Rising Sun under the same re-
luirement for depository bonds
as had been in force in the case
of former depository. An
agreement to this effect was
authorized and accepted. Copy
of said agreement was made a
part of these minutes. Bonds
acceptable as security for these
funds were to be Government,
State, Municipal or Utility
bonds.
A letter from the State Board
of Health concerning the sani-
tary conditions of the Elkton
Colored School was read to the
Board Of Education. An esti-
mate of the cost for making
sanitary connections and pro-
visions at this school was ask
ed, so that it might be included
in the budget for 1933-1934.
A list of teachers in the high
schools with the subjects which
they were teaching, and in
which they were certified, was
presented to the Board of Edu-
cation. This list was report
from the State Board of Educa-
ton. 1t showed a decided i'm
provement in the reduction in
the number of teachers in the
high schools who were teach
ing subjects which were not
listed on their certificates.
A petition from residents
along the Elkton-North East
road, asking that transporta-
ton facilities be extended in
that direction, was presented to
the Board of Education. This
petition to the Board of Educa-
ton was deferred until a later
meeting for final settlement.
The County Superintendent
gave to the Board of Education
a resume which the Legislature
enacted in the recent 1888 ses-
sion of the General Assembly
of Maryland, as it affected
schools. One bill only was en-
acted. That. bill was one
which concerned the salaries of
teachers and provided for a re-
duction in the salaries of GER
tain teachers in Cecil County
for a period of two years.
The fundamental change in
the law was the addition of
provision which read as fol-
lows: provided, however, that
the salaries of school teachers
as provided for in Sections 435
and 1876 of this Article for the
schools years 1933-1934 and
1934-1935, shall be reduced by
the following percentage:
Teachers receiving under ST.
200, ten percent; teachers re-
ceiving $1,000 to $1799, eleven
per cent; teachers receiving
$1,000 to 1899, twelve per cent;
teachers receiving $1,000 to
5000, thirteen per cent; teach
ers receiving $4,000 to $500,
fourteen per cent; teachers re-
ceiving $4,000 and over, fifteen
per cent. And provided, fur
Their, that the County Commits
sioners of Ce-il County shall
include in the levies for the
years 1888 and 1884 sufficient
amounts to pay the salaries as
hereinabove reduced"
The meeting then adjourned.