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Show Single Salary Plan for Teachers .Has Been Adopted in Many Cities Taaehars centrally will ba liAar-aatad liAar-aatad la tha dlacualaon of a aum-bar aum-bar of tconomlo quaatlona In tba annual raport of tha dapartmant of claaaroom tcacharo of tha National Education aasoaiatlon, now balna dlatrlbutad. Tha moat slfnlf Ua:it alana of proaraaa In salary fixation diaruaaed In tha raport art th In craaalnar tanrtancy to pay laa:hara with aqual training and expcrUnra tha sama aalary, rsardl.a of whether thay taach In ala ji-intnry, apaclal ar hlg-h achool; tha provision provi-sion for laava of abaanes fnr pro-faaalonal pro-faaalonal atody with wholo or part aalary allswanea; spaclal salary al-lowaaca al-lowaaca for aummar achool work and atabla aalary aehaduiaa with raaular annual tneraaaaa. It appiara that IM rltlaa. It par cant of all thoaa raplylna. hava a4oa!ad a slncla aalary acliadjle. Tha amallaat parcantaaa la In Tha froop of cltlas bavins; mora than 1.0 population. Only 1 par aant of thoaa cltlao pay tha rams salary to- taachars with th Sams training and asms aspartate. Th raport also shows t.at S par cant of (7 citlaa rspor-ln ?ay a Ixraar aalary to tha btlr trained taachars Tha raport da'Ura that tha prlnclpla tof tha alnffla Bftlary arhadnlaa aasumaa "that ha work of laaehlna chlMraa la tha (rsds la iuat aa Important and aattllad ta juat aa much praparatton on tha part af the teachers as the w, ta any particular" claaa In a high school, once this assumption Is grsntsd there Is ao Juatlfloattoa lor paying differeat ealarle l tw teacher of equal ability, years of experience, aad tralalng luet because be-cause one prefer to tear first grade children and the other Ka-gltah Ka-gltah compoattleH In tha high achool. The Influeace tf single schedules oa teaching arftc'.ent:y, preparation ef teachers, morsaa of tha teaching oorpa. and In the elimination elimi-nation of claee dtatlnctline between grade and high achool te?here will hava far reaching results.' RAKT gABBATICAI. LBAVB. - ' Many citlaa. both Jarge tnd small, are providing a leave of abeeuee for teachera for profeealooal aluUy. AS yet only a very email per coat of the tea cltlea reporting allow any fiart of pay during leave. Tha fol-nwlng fol-nwlng table ladicataa tha traoj amoag xltaia: . . CIH-e Nnio- r'er ber ctat Is leave greeted for Yea III 41 etudyt ... No, 10 ei Total ...iii lot 1 1 4 l ,ii is . ' ii : It :j ii Xumber f years' 4 . T I aarvlce before ' 24 IT leave la granted I ' 4 .- I , I 11 til is j. aad ovsr 4 I Total ...... 14 111 ' ii. ti n-it i . 10-IS I Per cent of eelary lo-lf 1 allowed during 40-41 1 leave - II I l " aad ovsr 1 Totsl . ........... ...i.m "7 Allowance for sda- Yea 71 catlve travel ... Ne Til .41 Total ...s....l4l' 10S pay for a run BR itidt. A largs percentage of cities grant teachers an allowance on account of axpensea for study at summer schools; sec out of J cities, or 11 per cent of ths who! number, granting such an allowance; 161 cltlea allow a permanent Increase, while graat an allowance toward tow-ard summer achool expenses; IS cities pay Irss thaa 2(. 43 cities from J- ta . and 124 cities from l- to $74: St cities pay from 11-0 to 1121, and 4 cltisa pay fi ar over. Pcrhapa tha great ast slga of progress prog-ress In ths coastrnotlon of salary schedule during th last ten years, ears th report, la th adopt to a of aalary schedules with regular lb-rreaee. lb-rreaee. Four ysars age lees tpaa ft per cent of tha cities Included In a survey that waa maa oy tn ra-t'cnal ra-t'cnal Education association had ee-tabllshed ee-tabllshed schedul. while today Cft ?er cent of th cltls hav them, each era hav demanded them aad boards of sdocatlon have welcomed them a guarantee against constant con-stant dsmanda for Individual Increase. In-crease. Ne matter what th motive mo-tive for" etabllshlag them hav bee a, th aalary schedul as an durational du-rational admlnlstrstlvo dvico I her, aad her to stay. - It rsmalns for teacher and administrative officers of-ficers to e that It U i constructive construc-tive professions! device not simply n break upoa financial zpendltures for education and a means af aoto-matlxlng aoto-matlxlng th method of compensating compensat-ing teacher. Whtl a few plac laet year praetlaod retrenchment on school cost by not knowing th reeralar Increases It will b see a by tftblo 4 that the echedule wer on tha whal maintained. |