Evening star., 1947-01-29
ID. T.. Heads Consider
Teacher Pay Boost al
Meeting Tomorrow
By Colt HendIey. Jr.

SchOOl Supt. Hobart M. Corning
proposals for higher teachers pay
today had the approval of the
Board of Education-but when they
reach Congress later this week at
least one recommendation may not
meet with approval from Senator
McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada.
The board yesterday approved the
recommendations submitted by the
school superintendent by a vote o1
S to 2. Tomorrow they will be dis
cussed with the District Commits
sioners.
The dissenting votes came from
Two board members who felt that
"truant" officers should have the
same privileges as teachers. DR.
James A. Cannon and George E. G.
Hayes opposed putting the schoo
attendance of "truant" officers back
On a 12-month employment basis
rather than the present 10 months
They also opposed limiting the
range of promotions for those Off
GERS. They wanted superior work
recognized by increased pay as il
is recognized for teachers.
McCarran Supports View.
Before the vote was taken a letter
from Senator McCarran to DR.
Corning was read. The Senator said
he would like to see the attendance
officers on the same professional
status as the teachers.
"A check has shown me chat
every organized group of teachers
in the system has submitted this
recommendation to give the same
professional classification to these
attendance department teachers
which you propose to give to other
teachers, librarians, research as,
sistants and counselors," the lette,
stated.
Because I should like to have
this matter corrected before your
proposal reaches me in a formal
way, I am sending this letter to you
post haste
The Senator also congratulated
DR.. Corning for basing his recon-
mendations on the single salary
schedule which indicated IAN hon.
est effort to try to remove many Of
the inequities that were written into
the 1945 salary bill"
Provides $500 Raise.
DR.. Corning's proposals call for a
$700\ raise-$250 more than the
teachers are getting now under q
temporary $3.50 raise granted by
Congress last year and due to ex-
pire on July las well as a com
plete overhauling and raising of the
permanent schedule
The board meeting with the Dis
trict Commissioners will be held al
10:30 am. tomorrow. The boarc
expects to forward the report to the
House and Senate District Commit.
tees by Friday.
Chairman Buck of the SenatesDis-
trict Committee said the teachers
pay proposals would be given sym
pathetic consideration" by his COM
mittee when they are received.
Il think school teachers generally
are underpaid," he said.
The two board members who voted
mo" yesterday explained they ap-
proved the other recommendation
made by DR.. Corning but wanted
the record to show their disagree
ment on the "truant" officer ques-
ticn.
The 1945 pay schedule gave the
truant officers a range in salaries
from 81 900 to $4,000. Teachers un-
der that bill got from $1,000 to
81, 700, reaching the higher classifi-
cations through merit promotions
The proposals as they now stand
recommend range of $2,500 to 81,
200 for attendance officers, as COM
pared to teachers salaries Of $2,50C
to $4,700. No provision for promo
ton of attendance officers into the
higher brackets is recommended in
the present prosposals. i