The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-17

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The schools having no principals
and the schools having teaching
principals should have the supervis-
Ing and administrative services u
principals just as do those schools
now having supervising principals,
In order to provide ell schools with
the services OF supervising princt.
pals and TO provide that no princi-
pal shall have more than 30 teach.
ers 10 supervise, the schools might
DO combined In some such manner
as. follows, each single school or
combination Of schools 10 DO super.
vised by one principal:
Name OF Schools Number OF
Teachers
Begnal and Duggan (now
coInbined) .....,..,,..,, ~
wash ,,,',',',''''''s''' 20
Drugs ',,'',,,''s'''''''' 20
Wepster '','''''','''''''''
9locum ,..''''.'..,''.,'.,.,
Tinker (is) and Abbott (S6) 265
sprague (lD and Anderson
Russ. S iis, ; and wilson o.. Is
Merriman 0O and Hen
dricken (eS) ...,,,,.... ass
Maloney 0SO and Bishop
Ull ,,,,,,,,''.,'.,'' 500
Barnard tib) and Bunker
Hill GID .,.,',,,..',..,S ~
Chase (iS) and Hopeville tl3) 40
Kingsbury tiN and WASH
ington (iO ..,,,,,,..,., n
Mulcahy 90, Welton (0.D),
Reldvilie a.,
Bucks Hill az, East Farms
(2), East Mountain ca,
Roosevelt "a, Lincoln
~, 0ronoke ~, Open
Air School ~ .......,.. 26'b
This arrangement 10 presented
merely a. q sample Of combination
that might be made. Other colnbi-
nations might offer less difficulty IN
transportation for principles IN 90.
Ing between schools under their jir.
lsdiction, Under the plan suggested.
no principal would have less than
"a teachers 70 supervise. Halfstine
and fuii.tifne kindergarten teachers
have been included, but part.time
home economies teachers and part
time manual training teachers have
not been included because their time
has not been allocated among
schools. II their time were aliocated
70 schools the number OF teachers
would not DO increased BY more
than two for any combination OF
schools, Usually each school has
less than half the time OF one home
economies and one manual training
teacher, II these teachers were IN.
cluded there would not be more
than 30 teachers IN any combine
ton. ~
This arrangement would furnish
supervisory principal for ell schools,
including those that now have none.
" would require IL supervisory
principals instead Of the n super
viSory principals now employed. The
mediai salary OF the II supervisory
principals u 9S,i60 year, for the
coming school year, without dediictS
Ing the 10 percent cut IN salaries.
The average Of the original salaries
would be 1901.
The median salary paid super.
vIsing principals Of elementary
schools IN cities over 100000 u the
United States was $3.50 In 1890
1891; 43,0ie In i036sie3e, and s9,S2D
In i03e-io37. Most Of these ere, Of
course, principals serving In the few
very large cities. The inediail sal.
aries Of supervising principals Of
elementary schools In cities from
$1,000 70 10000 population. In 1885,
1887, was e2b27.
These data may be presented tor
comparison as follows:
Waterbury before salary cut)
io9e-io5e nedian ..,."...e5.ie0
lDJe.iD30 average .,.,,.,.. 3,10J
United States (CltieS above
100000 population
lo5e-tD31 fnedian .,....,,,. 3,22b
io56.ie56 median lowest
yehJ ',s,s,t,,.',,,,,,,p G,V40
io20-i03i median (highegt
Rsassarch buIi.tln 81 the sa.
tlonai Education Association
Salaries Of School Employees
iD16-ie97", March 1897.
United states Cities from 3O,-
900 70 10000 pOpulatioD)
ie3esieg1 nlcdian ..,....,.. 2,12T
~ would appear that II SALARIES
we're 70 BE- paid b Waterbury, with