EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9151, 25 July 1908, Page 4

EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

The Education Act Amendment Bill provides a new schema of grading of public schools and grading of teachers' salaries to take effect on January Ist, 1909. The following are exan.pies:—School of grade 1., average attendance 9 t<* 15, one teacher, salary £9O Jo £l2O. Grade IV., average attendance 36 to 80, head teacher £IBO to £2lO, one assistant £9O to £l2O. Sub-grade VL 13, aveiage attendance 160 to 200, head teacher £240 to £270, two assistants £l2O to £l5O and £l2O to £135, two pi.pil teachers or two assistants. Sub-grade VIII. B, average attendance 351 to 400, head teacher £3lO to £340, five assistants £9O 'to £240, tluve pupil teachers or additional assistants. Sub-grade IX. C, average attendance 551 to 600, head teacher £340 to £370, seven assistants £9O to £270, six pupil teachers or five additional assistants. Salaries of pupil teachers are fixed as follows: —First year, £25 with allowance of £2O if obliged to live away from home; second year, £35 with allowance of £ls; third year. £45 with allowance of £10; fourth and fifth year, £55 with allowance of £5. Another provision makesian important, amendment to the law regarding the appointments of teachers. The present Act provides that a committ-e may select one or two names from the Board's list of applicants for any position and that' the Board must appoint one of the candidates selected by the committee. Instead it is proposed that the committee if it desires to express any opinion or make any recommendation with respect to the appointment shall forward its opinion or recommendation to the Board so as to reach the Board not later than two clear days before the day on which the appointment i 3 proposed to be made. The Board in making any appointment must consider the fitness of all applicants, whether presiding or employed in the district or not, and also of all teachers in its employ who have signified a. desire for promotion or transfer.