Evening star., 1949-10-05
Proposed Standards
On Teachers Pay Put
Before Board Today

Proposed minimum requirements
for teachers to receive additional
pay increases after the five regu-
lar yearly raises were to be pre-
sented to the Board of Education
today.
The board consideration came
as the action on the legislation to
grant paid sick leave to public
school teachers and attendance
officers appeared to be headed for
early action in the House.
The compromise conference
agreement. fixing a 60-day maxi
mum to such sick leave, was
passed yesterday by the Senate
and sent to the House. It was
called up by Senator Margaret
Chase White, Republican, of Maine
and agreed to without objection.
The conference report is to be
called up by Representative Aber-
nethy,. Democrat. of Mississippi
in the House. The measure would
benefit about $500 teachers and
attendance officers who now have
to pay substitutes to Work for
them when they are sick.
The Board of Education's Per-
sonnel Committee yesterday ap-
proved the standards for deter
mining successful teaching" and
increased professional attain
ments" which are the basis for the
after f1ve-year raises authorized
in the Teachers Salary Act of 1947.
The board also Endorsed a program
of in-service training for teachers.
Both proposals were scheduled
to be acted on late today by the
Board of Education.
Selected by Teachers.
The proposed standards select
ed by the teachers themselves
through a committee set up by
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
late in 1947 and adopted by that
committee in revised form last
June, would require:
/. An average rating of "rea-
sonable quality Of service" or bet
ter for the flve-year period.
2. Participation each year in at
least one major activity of the
official in-service program ap-
proved by the school board. For
one or two years of this require
ment. however, teachers might
substitute three semester hours of
college work per year. or serve on
some city-wide scholastic COM
mittee approved by the super
intendent.
A new feature of the in service
training program, as submitted
by DR.. Corning, would be confer
ences with out-of- town experts,
for which $4,000 was set aside
in the 1850 Appropriations Act.
First Six Approved.
Names of the first six of these
were submitted and approved yes
terday. They are:
DR.. William Kottmeyer, assist
ant superintendent Of schools, st.
Louis, Mo-; DR.. Henry Hill, pres
ident "of Peabody College; DR..
Daniel A. Prescott. director of
child study OF the College of
Education, University of Mary
land; DR.. Paul Mckee, director of
elementary education, Colorado
State College Of Education; DR..
Mary DEG. Bryan, professor of
home economics, Teachers Col
lege Of Columbia University, and
Miss Constance Hart, cafeteria
supervisor Of Rochester IN. "
Public Schools.
The expanded in-service pro-
gram would begin with lectures
and conferences on reading by DR..
Kottmeyer on November 2 and 8.
DR.. Corning pointed out that, be-
sides the six named, other con-
sultants would be selected as the
school year progresses.
As submitted by DR.. Corning,
the in-service program is gener-
ally that which has been in effect
for several years, except for the
portion covered by the $4,000 ap-
preparation. but this is the first
time it has been codif1ed.
Another first" on the proposed
program this year is a three-day
atomic energy forum for science
and social studies teachers, with
Atomic Energy Commission Of
ficials participating. 1t is sched,
uled to open December rs.