Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-28
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Teacher Pay
Problem Again
Third PIon Revealed
| In Virginia; Debate
Set on Appropriations
By the Associated Press

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By the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 81
The thorny problem of a school
fund distribution plan to meet
Gov. Stanley's minimum teacher
pay program cropped up again
today as the House of Delegates
agreed to take up the general
appropriation bill for debate
Wednesday.
This decision by the House and
the unwilling of a third ap-
proach to the sensitive teacher
pay formula were the highlights
of a rather unspectacular Sat-
urday session of both the House
and Senate.
Governor Allays Rumors.
In a side development. how
ever, Gov. Stanley put down
rumors the administration might
disclaim parenthood of a bill
aimed at tightening up the
States so-called right-to-work
law. Speaking of the amend
ments proposed to the Tuck
Labor Act of 1947, he said in a
statement:
II requested their introduction
and consideration by the Cen
eral Assembly and I hope they
will meet with it's approval"
The House voted to set debate
on the $3.50 million appropria-
tons bill and some 100 commits
tee amendments as a continuing
and special order of business for
noon Wednesday.
Chairman Howard H. Adams
of the Appropriations Committee
at first suggested the bill be
taken up Tuesday. But Delegate
Robert Whitehead requested the
switch to Wednesday to give
members time to look into the
new school formula which he
understood was in the works. Mr..
Adams agreed but advised the
House he wasn't prepared to say
whether the Appropriations Com
mittee was going to recommend
a change in the formula it al
ready has written into the bill.
No Guarantee on Stanley Plan.
AS the budget bill came out
of Mr.. Adams committee Mon
day, it contained provisions for
distributing the school funds to
meet the Stanley increase. But
the distribution formula used ap-
parently does not guarantee that
the Stanley pay plan will be met
unless there is greater local eff
fort on a voluntary basis by some
of the localities.
1t seems this plan didn't meet
the Governors approval and he
had the State Education Depart
ment get to work on another
system designed to make certain
his $2.400-s3,600 pay scale will
be launched.
Mr.. Adams conferred with
DoWell ]. Howard, public instruc-
ton superintendent, on the latest
plan his committee will consider
at a meeting Monday afternoon.
The first of the three formulas
was the product of Gov. Battles
Willett study commission which
put a rather painful-for some
county legislators-emphasis on
local effort in helping meet the
teacher pay scales. The second,
the one that's in the budget
bill the House will debate, rep
resents a middle ground ap-
proach between the present av-
erage daily attendance plan and
the Willett formula. The new
one. Mr.. Adams said, moves
closer toward the Willett plan.
The Teacher Pay Provision.
AS the budget bill stands with
respect to teacher pay, each
locality would receive a fiat ST.
550-a-year basic appropriation
for each assigned teaching po-
sltion the first year and ST.
600 the second year of the
biennium. The minimum educa-
ton fund-a helping hand for
poorer counties-would require
that the localities tax their
property on a rate of at least
IS cents per 500 on true 1850
values. The third fund the State
has set up for teacher pay
salary equalization-would go to
the needier localities largely at
the discretion of the State
Board of Education.
The latest plan would set the
basic appropriation at 81 ,450 for
each assigned teaching position
(the present is $1,425) and give
each locality the same amount
from the salary equalization
fund next year that it received
this year However. the plan
calls for the appropriation act
to put local effort requirements
for participation in the salary
equalization fund.
To Act on Party Liquor Bill.
The House pushed ahead for
final action Monday the bill by
Delegate Walter A. Page of Nor
folk to permit the drinking Of
self -Sllnnlied hard linunr of Or