Evening star., 1945-11-25
School Budget
0fS767 LIT Set
In Alexandra
Figure Is s64,670
Higher Than OutIoy
For This Year

The Alexandria School Board has
approved and sent to City Council
a $767,177 budget for 1916, repre-
sentlng an increase of $64,670 over
this year. The city's share of the
budget is S583 300, an increase OF
$4,000 over its l945 appropriation
With the exception of a $32, 900
increase in teachers salaries and
$12,400 budgeted for salaries of ad-
dltlonal teachers, the rise in the
budget is due chiefly to an antici-
. pated increase in the costs of labor
and materials for maintenance
equipment and supplies. There is
also $4,000 item for architects fees
incident to the addition to the
George Washington High School
and $4,000 item for the purchase
OF new typewriters.
~ According to T. c. Williams,
superintendent of schools, no in
crease in the teachers salary scale
is contemplated. He said the $32,-
600 is needed to pay the 1916 por-
tion of the $125 salary increase
given teachers this fall, of which
the city's share was $50 and the
States $75; to pay the 1916 portion
Apf salaries of new teachers added
to the school system in the fall of
l946, and to pay the 1916 portion of
the salary increases resulting from
the automatic raise in grade of
teachers who have not yet reached
the maximum.
Director Provided For.
An item of $12,40O is included for
the employment of a director of
instruction and visiting teacher in
January, and for 10 miscellaneous
teachers and a director of guidance
next September.
Salaries of personnel, including
principals, teachers, supervisors.
substitutes, clerks, nurse service. ad-
mlnlstratlVe personnel and janitors
constitutes 1868 per cent of the entire
budget. The average teachers SAL
ary, exclusive of principals, is $3.50,
Mr.. Williams said.
The anticipated receipts include
s156,000 from the State general
fund, $4,000 from the State fund
Tor vocational education, and So 700
from the special State fund for
projects not falling directly under
operation and maintenance. The
school Board lists S14,O19 balance
In its l945 fund, resulting largely
from teachers salaries authorized
out not used because teachers were
not available. In addition to the
clty's portion of $583, 300, $4,000 will
come from tuition of nonresident
pupils and $4,000 from miscellaneous
sources.
S30.850 Set Aside for Principals,
Salaries of the II principals
amount to S30,850, and of the four
special teachers to $3.50. George
Washington High School, with SO
teachers, has salary budget of
Sl58, ,280; Mount Vernon School, IS
teachers, S75,575; jefferson School,
81 teachers, S65, 100; George Mason
School, 10 teachers, $39,400; Lee
School, II teachers, $35 5,575; Maury
School. 10 teachers, S21 ,75O; Charles
D. Barrett School, six teachers, s12,-
1875; Washington School, eight
teachers, $17,250; Douglas MacAr-
thur School, eight teachers, s16,225;
Parker-Gray School, % teachers,
S47,850: Lyles-Crouch School. 13
teachers, S26,975; Seminary School,
one teacher, $2,225.
According to City Manager Carl
Budwesky, in addition to the school
budget for operation and mainte-
nance, approximately 100000 is
chargeable to the school system as
principal amortization and interest
on bonds issued for school buildings.
OF the bonds issued, s550,O0O is in
cluded in the new issue that is ex-
pected to be finally approved by
City Council Tuesday night,