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. 1918 Excerpt: ...largest percentage of increase. 2. A minimum salary for all teachers, rural and urban, which will unable them to support their families twelve months in the year. 3. A scale of increases in salary from time to time which will provide teachers with a reasonable assurance of a remuneration which will enable them to live ...
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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. 1918 Excerpt: ...largest percentage of increase. 2. A minimum salary for all teachers, rural and urban, which will unable them to support their families twelve months in the year. 3. A scale of increases in salary from time to time which will provide teachers with a reasonable assurance of a remuneration which will enable them to live appropriately without embarrassment, and which will also enable them to lay by something for old age. The compensation should be sufficient to warrant young men and young women of first-class ability to prepare themselves properly for teaching and to remain in the profession after they have once entered it. 4. After a reasonable probationary period and proper certification, tenure of position during efficiency, with a fair chance of advancement to positions of greater importance and emolument. II How can the funds be obtained to carry out such a program? Let us consider only three items: Amount paid teachers in 1915 $345,000,000 Amount necessary, according to Railway Wage Commission, to meet increast cost of living in 1915 303,000,000 Additional amount, required to pay living salaries to teachers in 1918 259,000,000 Amount required to extend scope of education (near future).... 75,000,000 Total $982,000,000 If we study the replies of the state superintendents to questions 2 and 4, as given above (p. 22), we find that the money for teachers' salaries comes (1) from state support and (2) from local taxation; that there is no uniformity among the states as to which of these two parts should be the larger; that some states, like Kansas, give no state support whatever, while others, like Pennsylvania, give millions.1 We find, moreover, that almost without exception there are no additional state funds available for school support until there is furt...
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