Length of School
Terms, Employment of Teachers, Payment of Salaries
The approval of leading citizens of the decision of the
County Board of Education to give the children of the county a chance and
providing for them six months of instruction by competent teachers has been
quite gratifying. The proposal appealed to the County Board of Commissioners
and they voted a 50-cent levy for schools for the year 1919-20. We feel that
the hour has truck for a forward movement in public education in our county.
The local tax districts in many parts of the county have been so satisfactory
that the County Commissioners felt justified in this hour of general
enlightenment in providing handsomely for intelligent citizens in the next
generation.
The County Board of Education desires to announce the
following policy with reference to the employment of teachers and the conduct
of our public schools. It is fair and equitable, it seems to us, to both city
and rural schools, and we feel sure it will commend itself to the intelligent
leaders of our county. This policy will be quite an incentive to the local
districts to provide better schools and longer terms, and will enable them to
hold the good teachers which they now have. The policy is as follows:
It shall be the policy of the County Board of Education to
pay from State and county funds for the salaries of all teachers in city and
rural schools for a term of six months, and two-thirds the salary of city
superintendents for the year at what the school boards must pay to procure
competent teachers, provided that the County Superintendent shall in such
instances be consulted in advance respecting the salary of each teacher if the
salary proposed exceeds the maximum fixed by law; and provided further, that in
case he does not agree to increase the salary, and the local school board still
insists on the teacher and the salary they had proposed, the County
Superintendent shall decide on the salary he regards as equitable for the
position and the County Board of Education shall make its apportionment based
on that salary basis only. The remaining part of the salary shall be paid from
local sources. The foregoing provisions are to be interpreted as allowing
salaries above the State maximum only on condition that city schools run for
nine months and rural schools for seven months.
It will be observed that this policy guarantees a longer
school term, a competent corps of teachers, and that degree of unity
fundamentally necessary for a well ordered and harmonious public school system.
--Alamance County
Board of Education.
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