THE EDUCATION BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9176, 27 August 1908, Page 3

THE EDUCATION BILL.

The Education Act Amendment, ©ill was reported to the House on i 'Tuesday by the Education Committee with a number of amendments. Clause 5 (dealing with| the number *of teachers in each school) is amended by the addition of a>| new sub-clause which provides that "the staff of ;any public school shall not at any time before the full number of tho said additional assistants has been appointed be less than it would hnve been under the principal Act had not this Act not been passed and the ad- i ditioual teachers (if any) required in I order to conform to this requirement I shall receive salaries of sub-grada A as determined by the first schedule hereto." An addition to sub-clause 5 of clause 7 provides that a teacher ""shall receive the first increment of salary on the same date as if he had continued in the position from which .he was so transferred." A new subclause (8) is added to clause 7 as follows:—"If any public school is at the begining of any year placed in 1 or a higher grade, and that ""^"school i 3 thereafter reduced in grade any teacher who remains in the same position therein shall for two years after the reduction continue to receive the same salary as if no such ■i-aduction had taken place, but the school shall nevertheless at all times bd staffed in accordance with the sub-grade to which it belongs for the •tfime being." In the second schedule /an amendment has been made by providing that "at least three of the first six assistants in any public school must be women." The Bill as introduced provided "at least two." The grades for district high schools have been increased by omitting "12 •to 30," and suostituting "12 to .20" and "21 to 30," the first being placed in salary grade 111, and the latter in IV. Footnote Ato the •district high schools scale has been deleted, and the following substituted:—"To the teacher of a district high school there shall be payable an amount of £3O per annum in addition to any other amount payable to him under this Act."