Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-12
State Education Board Requests Funds
For A SO Percent Teacher Pay Increase
$5O-MilliOn
Asked For
Building Aid

Raleigh, Nov, IL lap
Funds to give public school
teachers pay increases aver
aging about SO percent were
requested by the State Board Of
Education today.
Board officials appeared be-
fore the advisory budget COM
mission to ask for an appropri-
alton of $109, 1873, 391 the first
year of the 1949-51 biennium and
Sill, 734,576 the second year.
Also put forward was re-
quest that $50, 100000 be approp-
rated from the general fund
surplus to aid local units in the
construction of school buildings.
Controller Paul Reid told the
commission that the budget por-
posed spending of 1850, $40 the
first year and $90,213, 300 the
second year for Institutional
salaries.
This, he said, would provide
minimum salary of 50, 400 a
year and a maximum of SO, 900
for teachers with a certificates
and maximum of $500 for
teachers with graduate certiii-
OUR OPINION
In Sundays Herald will ap-
pear an editorial on the pro-
posals of the State Board Of
Education to raise teachers'
salaries and provide addition
al funds for school buildings.
Gates. He estimated that the
average teacher would receive
So, 087 the first year of the bien-
mum compared with the preent
average of $1,943.
A total of $62, 298, 200 was spent
by the State to operate the
schools last year ane sos, 1852, 1888
is being spent this year. SPEND
ing for Institutional salaries last
year totaled $50 321, 522 and $50,
321, 522 being spent this year.
The proposed budget would
provide principals an average
salary of $4,230 a year compared
with the present average of So,
230 and superintendent an av-
erage of $6,029 compared with
$4,885.
Reid also said that the funds
requested would enable the
board of education to reduce the
average teacher load from SO
to 80 pupils. This would neces-
state an increase in the num-
Der of teachers, and Reid said
the requests contemplated a
total of 27,786 teachers and prin-
cipals the first year of the bien-
mum and 28,523 the second as
compared with about 25,500 now
employed.
Reid said the board Of educa-
ton felt that the state SHOULD
undertake to provide the type
and quality of education for
which the people claim they are
willing to pay.
The Board of Education re-
quests also included:
/. 1854. 900 each year to EN-
ploy 118 attendance officers at
$4,000 each.
2. $638,S20 the first year and
$661,17 the second to provide
clerical help for principals.
8. $2,866, 1865 the first year
and $3,116,832 the second for
vocational education compared
with 81, 4937s last year and
$1,615,100 t>is year.
4. 100000 each year for pur-
chase of free textbooks compar-
ed with 1919, 1898 last year and
$739.348 this year.
S. SO, 100000 the first year and
$2,915, 900 the second for pur-
chase of school buses compared
with 2,1o9,5oo last year and
$1,740,000 this year.
6. $550,000 each year for a
school health program.
The budget commission, which
has been hearing budget request
from state agencies since Nov.
3, gave over the entire morning
to hearing the education boards
requests. The hearing will end
this afternoon.
The commission will submit
an overall budget for the opera
ton of state agencies to the
Legislature when it convenes in
the early part of January. On
Nov. % the commission will
meet in Raleigh for about three
days to go over the requests
with a fine comb and start the
task of making specific recon-
mendationS.