Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-01
State Negro Teachers In
Weekend Meeting To Conclude
Voting On Proposed Salary Plan
Education Dept. Bulletin
Show Wide Difference In Salary
OF White And Negro Teachers
Rejection Of Plan By Negro
Teachers Predicted

The outcome of the proposed
Teachers Salary Plan. submitted
to the teachers for their approval
before being enacted into law by
a Special Session Of the state Leg
islature scheduled to be called in
extra Special Session during the
middle of October now appears
to rest upon the result of the vote
of Negro teachers who expected
to conclude their voting in a num-
her of meetings over the state
during this weekend.
Well informed sources predict
that the plan viii be rejected by
the Negro Teachers.
The white teachers who COM
Melted their voting last Saturday,
from every indication appear to
have rejected the plans.
The proposed plan sets up a
system of classifications as the
basis for fixing salary. The clas-
sificatians are based upon a ma
tional Teachers Examination which
each teacher must take. In the
lower classification the salary
would be $500 per year.
From the beginning the White
teachers have shown equal if not
greater suspicion of the plan than
the Negro teachers. although it
appeared plainly evident that the
plan would give legislative sane
tion to even greater differences in
the salary paid Negro and White
teachers; and that the plan wa
primarily eimed at defeating the
effect of a favorable opinion in the
Boles case on which a decision in
the Federal Court is now pending.
The Negro Teachers are voting
in a series of district meetings
under the direction of officials of
the Mississippi Association of
Teachers in Colored Schools. Jack
son and Kinds County teachers
cast their votes in meeting at
Lanier High School.
The result of the voting may not
be announced until early next
week. Like that Of the white
teachers. when the voting of the
NEGRO teachers is completed the
ballots will be brought to the of
flee of the Secretary of State here
where the votes will be counted.
The fact that the plan has been
generally rejected by the white
teachers is seen as saving negro
teachers from too much official
coercion allowing them to vote
freely their own convictions.
Meanwhile in a bulletin pub
| lished by G. ]. Cain, Director, Di-
vision of Administration and FL
nance, it was revealed that the
average White teacher received
over $1,000 year more than does
the average Negro teacher
The Cain bulletin states that
1865 White high school teachers
receive an average salary of
s1937.60. The $50 Negro high
school teachers received an aver
age salary of $1050.94.
I'm the elementary schools 5401
white teachers get an average of
S1616.56, while the average for
Negro teachers is $61334
The bulletin also showed the
white elementary supervisors get
an average salary of S2696.81,
while Negro Jeanes teachers in
the same category get S1963.85.
According to the bulletin of the
total $33.586.S26.44 spent for pub
/ lie schools for the 1948-49 ses-
sion, total of 500, 143.434.40, or
$50 per cent was spent on in
! struction.
Of this amount, 1921 ,170.06
went to white instruction, and $4,-
932,263.80 to colored instruction.