Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-01-22 | Page 3 | Half Million Increase in Teachers Salaries

HALF MILLION INCREASE v IN TEACHERS SALARIES Chicago Birch Wiclders Get Restoration of Former 1 Cut and Some in Advance. CHICAGO, Jan. 22. A salary increase amounting to an aggregate of nearly half a million dollars a year was granted to the teaching force of the Chicago public schools by the Board of Education last night. Of this sum $230,000 will be received in advances by the grade and primary school teachers. The salary of every teacher of these two classes in the system was raised $50 a year. The salary sal-ary of every head assistant is raised $50 in addition to the regular schedule advances.. ad-vances.. Furthermore, every teacher who passes the promotional tests given by the board will be entitled to an additional increase of $50 a year. - The salaries of all principals, high school teachers and department and district superintendents, as well as of all Janitors in the service, were returned to the old salary schedule which was in force prior to the 60 per cent reduction of last year. Superintendent Superintend-ent Edwin G. Cooley'aalary was raised from $7000 to $10,000.