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Show SCHOOL' ill WILL INAUGURATE ECONOMIES The question of finances was paramount para-mount in tho discussions of the directors di-rectors of tho city school system at their meeting: last night and a policy of stricter economy in the handling: of the funds -will probably be the result. It was stated by the clerk of the board that there is at present a hank overdraft of $49,000 recorded against the school system, which will bo decreased de-creased this year by an increase In rovenues to be received by the school board from tho city and county taxes. As near as can be figured at the present pres-ent time, the school revenues this year will be-between $7000 and $20,-000 $20,-000 short of tho amount needed to pay the expenses of the system for the year. In the opinion of tho hoard members, mem-bers, the upkeep of the schools this year will be as great, if not greater, than last year. Tho attention of the school board was called last night to a recent notice no-tice received from tho state board with regard to the ruling that state funds should be withheld from cities in which high school teachers did not hold or had not filed with the city boards of education certificates or diplomas from the stato hoard of education. edu-cation. It was suggested in the notice no-tice that the salaries of teachers who had not complied with this ruling be withhold until they did comply. The suggestion was acted upon by Superintendent Super-intendent Mills, but last night the school directors Instructed tho clerk to issue all salary checks due, but to notify the high school teachers to at once file their certificates or diplomas. diplo-mas. Those who cannot comply -with the order, it was decided, will be asked to immediately resign, so as not to imperil the city's claim to a portion of the stato school funds. Another question brought up, but not decided, was that of whether the school system should defray tho expenses ex-penses of the teachers at tho state convention to be held in Salt Lake City, during the Christmas holidays. This has been done in past years, but a discontinuance" of the plan is one of the possible economies that, the schol directors may put into operation, opera-tion, at' least as long as a deficit in the school funds exist. In speaking of it last night, Director H. 11. Henderson Hender-son said: "I am not convinced that the school board should defray tho expenses of the teachers to tho convention, when the purpose of the convenelon is to equip the teachers -with ability to draw higher salaries from tho school board. It seems to mo that if the convention is a good thing for tho teachers, and that It prepares them for promotions and consequent higher salaries, they themselves should pay the expenses of their attendance and not wo who, if tho convention is worthy, havo topay tho increased salaries sal-aries earned by the teachers as a result re-sult ot what the institute teaches them." It is also probable that the hoard will abandon the policy of paying tho. yearly dues of its teachers in. the Utah Educational association, which include a subscription for each teacher teach-er to the magazine published by the association. According to the board members, the magazine is a trade journal and as such should be paid for by the teachers individually, the same as business and professional men pay for their trade journals. Director Di-rector Henderson went on record as being opposed to the payment of the dues by the school board and, though they may be paid this year, in the future such use of the school funds, undoubtedly, will not be allowed. |