Evening star., 1953-12-07
School Pay Rise
AT SIS Million
Cost st|sSought
Bourd Recommends
$500 to $6,400
Ronge for Teachers

A AANW pay oCllGOulS WLllCI
would add from $2.5 to So mil
lion to the budget for more
than 3.700 educational employees
was approved by the District
Board of Education today for
submission to the Commissioners
and Congress.
The schedule would give a
$160 raise to beginning teachers
with bachelors degrees. The
new range of teachers pay
would be from $500 to $6,400.
as compared with the present
$3,440 to $5,792.
The board approved an in
crease for the superintendent OF
schools, now receiving $4,000
a year, to a schedule starting
at $17,500 and progressing in
steps to a maximum of $4,000.
The proposals, except for his
own salary recommendation.
were presented by School Supt.
Hobart M. Corning and were
substantially similar to a revised
schedule approved by the board
last spring.
Proposed Increases Vary.
The increases proposed under
the new pay schedule range in
varying percentage up to 80 per
cent for elementary principals
with masters degrees. They
would go from a scale of from
$3.50 to $6,725 now to one Of
from $1,000 to $4,000.
DR. Corning said the minimum
and maximum of the schedule
would place District teachers
above the median for II cities
with populations over 100000.
which in the opinion of the
superintendent is extremely i'm
portant if the schools of the Dis
trict are to compete for the serv-
ices of well-trained personnel"
Teachers in July did get in
creases ranging from 6 to 10 per
cent, costing about SIG million,
but this "accentuated some Of
the illogical relationships" in
the pay schedule, DR.. Corning
pointed out.
The legislation passed at
that time directed the Commits
sioners in cooperation with the
board. to study the pay and
claSSif1cations and make a re-
port to the Senate and House
District Committees by Janu-
airy 4.
Immediate Effect.
A change from the formerly
proposed schedule would give
the new schedule effect immedi-
ately, rather than having it
take effect gradually over a five.
year period.
Under the newly proposed
schedule, senior high principals
would be changed from the pres
ent $6,725 to 1891 to a range
of from $7,700 to $4,000. The
scale for associate superintend-
ents would be raised from $8,007
to $9.520 at present to from $10,-
300 to $4,000.
Two board members, Mrs.
Frank S. Phillips and Wesley S.
Phillips, both on the Personnel
Committee, voted against the
salary proposed for the super.
intendent of schools.
They disagreed with the com.
mittee chairman, Walter N.
Tobriner, who favored the pro-
posed schedule as follows:
The superintendent would
have a starting salary of $17,500.
The second step would be $18,-
400; third. $4,000; fourth, $20,-
200; fifth, $21,100 and there
after, $4,000.
DR.. Corning, should the pro-
posal be approved by Congress,
would be raised in pay to $17,500.
Endorsed by Committee.
The Legislative committee ap-
proved this schedule for the
superintendent. The personnel
and legislative committees held
a joint session on the matter
prior to the full board meeting,
and reporters were excluded
from their deliberations on the
superintendent's salary.
DR.. Margaret j. Butcher
argued she did not feel $17,500
adequate for the superintendent
Of first-rate school system.
Mr.. Tobriner said the superin-
tendent's salary had not been in
creased since 1916, while teachers
co o1-ioc hod hao,o it1aroo.oA