Evening star., 1945-02-16
Commissioners
Study Raises
For Teachers
Boosts Up to 81 300
Would Abolish
Present $500 Bonus

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Present $500 Bonus
Increases in basic salaries ranging
from $500 to $1,000 a year for ele-
mentary school teachers and prin~
cipals and $500 to $1,000 for Junior
and senior high school teachers and
principals were under consideration
today by the Commissioners.
The proposed increases were con.
tanned in new salary schedules
recommended late yesterday by
Budget Officer Walter L. Fowler. II
the increases in basic salaries are
granted by Congress the present
$500 a year bonus given in addition
to the basic salary would be discon-
tinued.
Basic salaries of high ad Junior
high school principals would be in
creased by from $700 to $1,000 under
the schedule. The superintendent of
schools. Robert L. Haycock, would
receive $4,000 a year-Sl 900 more
than the Commissioners salaries.
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the new salary schedule in effect
the first year is $1.118.400, which is
an increase of $50, 400 over the pres.
ent bonus" MIR. Fowler said.
The net cost of all increments
(autOmatic increases between the
minimum and maximum salaries for
various types of teachers) provided
for under the revised salary sched-
ule Is 81 ,063 200, which, added to the
first year increase over the bonus,
amounts to $1,143 $780," he added.
This is decrease of S602 900 from
the estimated cost of the salary
schedule approved by the Board Of
Education
School Authorities Approve.
Mr.. Fowler's report to the city
heads made it clear his recon-
mendations had the approval Of
school authorities, although it con-
stituted revision from the original
schedules submitted by the Board of
Education last fall.
The overwhelming majority of
elementary school teachers, whose
pay now ranges from 81 400 to So 900.
would range from $1,000 to $4,000,
More than 100 elementary teachers
who are now receiving 81, 300 to 81
600 a year would receive from $4,000
to $1,000 a year.
The salaries of 703 Junior high
school teachers whose pay now is
from 81 900 to 50 800 would be from
$1,000 to $500 under the Budget
Office schedules. More than so
Junior high teachers who now re-
ceive from $4,000 to $4,000 annually
would earn from $1,000 to S3.7O0.
The salaries of 558 senior high
school teachers, with ranges from
$1,000 to $4,000, would receive from
SLIGO to $500 a year. A group of
lat senior high teachers whose paw
starts at $4,000 and goes to $4,000
would receive $500 increases. The
pay of vocational high school teach
ers would be raised by $500 to $500 a
year, and similar increases would be
granted to research assistants and
instructors in teachers colleges.
Maximum Put at $500.
Elementary school principals SAL
aries would be boosted by $500 to
$1,000 a year, with a maximum SAL
ary OF s4,500. Assistant pricipals in
Junior high schools would be in
creased by $500 to $500 a year and
assistant principals in senior high
schools by $700 to $1,000.
Department heads, Junior high
school principals and senior high
school heads would receive in
creases ranging from s700 to $1,000
under Mr.. Fowler's recommends
tions. The first assistant superip-
tendents of schools would receiys
increases of $4,000.
IF the proposed revised sched-
ules Is approved" Mr.. Fowler in
formed the Commissioners, go per
cent OF all increases will 90 to
teachers on all levels, and particu-
lar attention has been given to in
creasing the salaries of elementary
school teachers. The remaining 10
per cent OF the increases is dis
trlbuted among the administrative
and supervisory officers and the de-
partment of school attendance and
work permits.
The total number of elementary
school teachers is 48 per cent OF
the total number of teachers zap
proximately $500. The amount of
the increases which elementary
school teachers receive is 54 per
cent of the total increases which
Will be paid to teachers"
Time Interval Cited.
Under Mr.. Fowler's schedules IL
would take from to IL wears to
go from the minimum salary to the
maximum. He said the two prin-
clpal factors in arriving at maxi
NUNS were salary ranges of per-
sons supervised and salaries paid to
persons in similar positions in other
cities. At present, urban teachers
IN only three States receive a higher
average salary than in the Dis
trict, he added.
The present basic pay of teachers
has not been revised since 1924
Under an act Of April /, 1943, which
was retroactive to December /, 1912.
teachers, f1remen and policemen.
with salaries under $4,000, were
granted annual bonuses of $500.
Mr.. Fowler said the school
authorities were well aware of the
Districts budgetary problems and
that they know also that ulti-
mately we shall be faced with a
general revision in salaries through
out all departments of the Dis
trict."
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