This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...from committee, but, after debates attended by much excitement and considerable disorder, failed of passage by four votes. The Enactment of the Reorganization Law of 1917. After the defeat of the bill of 1916 the pension commission and the teachers' federation took steps together to prepare a new bill. After a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...from committee, but, after debates attended by much excitement and considerable disorder, failed of passage by four votes. The Enactment of the Reorganization Law of 1917. After the defeat of the bill of 1916 the pension commission and the teachers' federation took steps together to prepare a new bill. After a considerable study a great number of new features were added of which the most important were: (1) a clear distinction between the "annuity" purchased by the teachers' contributions and the "pension" supplied by the city; (2) a provision by which a teacher might reduce his contributions (thereby reducing his "annuity") without reducing the "pension" supplied by the city; (3) abolition of direct relationship between annuity and salary, thereby preventing those who advance rapidly from obtaining greater benefits at the expense of those who advance slowly. To avert repetition of the accusation that the teachers had no opportunity to consider the proposed pension measure, Mr. Willcox ordered the teachers to appoint three delegates from the schools who were to constitute a central pension committee. This committee, consisting of 150 teachers, was to "express to the city pension commission the views and criticisms of the teachers, and to convey to the teachers accurate information regarding the provisions of the proposed pension plan." The teachers' "Committee of 150" was divided between a minority which favored the measure, and a majority which urged three principal objections to it. The majority urged in the first place that the city should not be permitted to require from the teachers already in the service a contribution larger than 3 per cent of salary, but that it should guarantee each teache...
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