Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-11-09
ooiory Hikes Cause
Worries in New Budset
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increase over current compensation
of salary and wartime emergency
supplement.
The overall 20 per cent increase is
not acceptable to many individual
teachers and some organizations, and
is regarded rs inadequate by several
influential newspapers. notably the
Charlotte Observer. The Charlotte
paper some weeks ago promulgated
proposed schedule beginning at
SSl $50 = year for A-gradc certificate
holders and scaling upward To $4,000
10" - years experiences: graduate
certificate holders would start IT
$4,000 and run up $4,000 after Il
wears. Current rates, including the
war emergency supplement. range
from Sl.2i5 to Sl.623 for A-grade
certificates. and from Sl,iO7 to Sl.S03
for graduate certificate holders. II
The officially sponsored 20 per cent
increase were applied horizontally in
all brackets the salary range for \
certificates would GO to Sl,l9l-Sl.-
9l1 and for graduate certificates 10
Sl.638-S2. l63 per year.
When the South Piedmont section
of NCEA meeting at Charlotte voted
for the higher Schedules it was stated
that the overall increase would be
Approximately - per cent. Several
local units have since voted the same
way, although other regional meet
ingS have followed the State Board
NCEA suGgcStionS.) Figures complied
by statiSticianS in the State depart
ment indicate the percentage in
crease advocated by the Charlotte
group would be in excess Of 60 per
cent rather than ~ per cent above
current salary schedules.
VIII Have Experience
An Interesting phase of the statiS-
tical report. which WAS presented to
the State board Thursday. but WAS
not given 10 the press. is the large
number OF experienced teachers an
ticipated for the l947-48 term. De-
spite the wide publicity given to
teacher shortage and the necessity of
employing ill-prepared and ineXper-
fenced teachers. more than half of
the teachers expected to be OIL the
job next year will have the l4-year
experience rating. The joker. of
course. might be in that word 'cx-
pcctcd": nobody can figure how
many teachers now on the Job may
quit before the beginning of another
school year
Tie progressive increment schedule
IN the Charlotte plan calls for in
creaScS over current pay ranging
from 1880 per cent to 8l.84 per cent
i'll the A-ccrtiticatcS and from apis
per cent to 99.67 per cent in the !
graduate Classification. The fact tina,
sc per cent of the A-certificate hold /
crS and IS per cent of the graduate
holdcrS have ten years or
more experience runs the total .
amount way up and establishes the .
68 per cent average increase
percentages and ratios are inter-
estlng TO Sta;iSticianS. but taxpayers
and recipients OF salaries are more
concerned about actual amounts i'm .
dollars. The State is spending this .
years on tie public school system. in .
round figures. 48 million dollars. /
State Board Of Education budget re- !
quests call for 81 millions next wear
ana " millions for l9+G-49. Adoption
OF the Charlotte proposal would re-
quire about 80 millions.
Spending Mounts
Total spending from the States
general fund this year will be about
~ millions. with revenue collec-
tons estimated at 90 millions. Bud
get request for next year are in on
cess Of 100 million dollars. This COM
olnatlon OF circumstances is putting
gray ha!rs in the heads of members
1i me Advisory Budget Commission.
II also is stimulating various pres
sure groups to greater activity. They
realize there isn't enough money in
Si&nt to grant all budget requests
ana each group is putting up as good |.
as possible for its particular J,