BOARD OF EDUCATION

OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

STATED MEETING

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1915

A stated meeting of the Board of Education was held on Wednesday, July 14, 1915, at 4 o'clock P. M., at the Hall of the Board, Park avenue and 59th street, Borough of Manhattan:

Present-THOMAS W. CHURCHILL, President, and the following members:

On motion, the Minutes of the meetings held on June 9 and June 23, 1915, were approved as printed.

COMMUNICATIONS AND REPORTS

The Secretary presented the following:

FROM OFFICERS OF THE BOARD

1. From the Secretary, as follows:

July 14, 1915—In accordance with a resolution adopted on March 27, 1912, instructing the Secretary to prepare a statement of all matters referred by the Board of Education and under consideration by the sev eral Committees and the Board of Superintendents, and present the same

at the first meeting in each month, I beg leave to submit the following statement:

1. Communication from the Board of Superintendents in reference to the approval of service of teachers.-Referred to the Committee on Elementary Schools and the Committee on High Schools and Training Schools March 11, 1914. (See Journal, pages 487-91.)

2. Communication from the Director of Reference and Research, setting forth a plan for studying methods of preparing, examining, selecting and training teachers in the public schools.-Referred to the Committee on High Schools and Training Schools April 8, 1914. (See Journal, pages 757-805.)

3. Report from the Teachers' Council in reference to a substitute for the superior-merit regulation.-Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation May 13, 1914. (See Journal, page 1058.)

4. Request of teachers of graduating classes in the elementary schools that the Board of Education make a separate salary schedule for graduating class teachers.-Referred to the Committee on Elementary Schools May 27, 1914. (See Journal, page 1206.)

5. Reports from the Teachers' Council in reference to (1) a sabbatical year for teachers and supervisors, (2) ratings of teachers, and (3) extension of lunch time.-Referred to the Committee on Elementary Schools and the Board of Superintendents June 24, 1914. (See Journal, page 1427.) 6. Communication from the Board of Superintendents, recommending that subdivision 35 of Section 65 of the By-Laws of the Board of Education be amended so as to provide additional compensation at the rate of $200 per annum for teachers assigned to teach non-vocational subjects in a vocational or trade school, and for regular teachers and teachers of special branches assigned to teach in prevocational classes in regular elementary schools.-Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation October 28, 1914. (See Journal, page 2224.)

7. Communication from the Board of Superintendents, recommending that part of the building being constructed by the Church of Our Saviour at the northwest corner of Washington avenue and 183d street, The Bronx, be leased on completion.-Referred to the Committee on Buildings December 23, 1914. (See Journal, page 2544.)

8. Report of the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation in reference to the establishment of the position of librarian in high schools.-Referred back to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation December 30, 1914. (See Journal, pages 2625-26.)

9. The paragraph in the rules and regulations for the use of school buildings and property, as submitted, providing that activities conducted by any outside organization may, in the discretion of the Committee on Care of Buildings, have assigned to them a teacher to supervise the activity, the services of teachers so assigned to be paid for by the organization using

the building. Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation January 13, 1915. (S (See Journal, page 60.)

10. Communication from the Board of Superintendents, recommending that subdivision 10 of Section 41 and subdivision 3 of Section 43 of the By-Laws of the Board of Education, in reference to reports by District Superintendents and ratings of teachers by principals, etc., be amended.— Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation January 27, 1915. (See Journal, page 100.)

11. Report from the Teachers' Council in reference to the method of payment of teachers' salaries, length of school year, etc.-Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation February 10, 1915. (See Journal, pages 282-83.)

12. Recommendation of the Board of Superintendents that subdivision 1 of Section 98 of the By-Laws of the Board of Education be amended by striking out clause (c) thereof.—Referred back to the Board of Superintendents January 27, 1915. (See Journal, pages 147-48.)

13. Resolution offered by Mrs. MULLAN that subdivision 12 of Section 67 of the By-Laws be repealed.-Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation February 24, 1915. (See Journal, page 415.)

14. Report of the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation, recommending that subdivision 14 of Section 65 of the By-Laws be amended so as to provide that teachers assigned to tubercular or anæmic classes, to classes for the blind, or to classes for crippled children shall be paid additional compensation at the rate of $100 per annum, regardless of what salary schedule they are paid under.-Referred back to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation March 10, 1915. (See Journal, page 434.)

15. Communication from the Board of Superintendents, recommending the amendment of Section 81 of the By-Laws of the Board of Education, relating to eligibility for license as laboratory assistant in high schools.— Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation April 28, 1915. (See Journal, page 674.)

16. Report of the Committee on Elementary Schools, approving a recommendation of the Board of Retirement that Mrs. Mary C. Dunphy, Superintendent of the New York City Children's Hospital and Schools, Department of Public Charities, be retired on September 1, 1915.-Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation April 28, 1915. (See Journal, page 692.)

17. Reports from the Teachers' Council in reference to (a) teachers' ratings, (b) promotions and examinations, (c) not including teachers or classes of kindergarten or ungraded or blind pupils in an estimate for allowance of assistants to principal, and (d) promotion of pupils.-Referred to the Committee on Elementary Schools May 26, 1915. (See Journal, pages 859-61, 863-64, 865-68 and 869-70.)

18. Report from the Teachers' Council in reference to increasing the school year to a uniform length of two hundred days.-Referred to the

Committee on By-Laws and Legislation May 26, 1915. (See Journal, pages 861-63.)

19. Report from the Teachers' Council in reference to playgrounds and playcentres. Referred to the Committee on Special Schools May 26, 1915. (See Journal, pages 864-65.)

20. Communication from the Board of Superintendents, requesting permission to withdraw the recommendation of January 14, 1915, in regard to the amendment of subdivision 10 of Section 41 of the By-Laws of the Board of Education, and requesting the Board of Education to amend subdivision 10 of Section 41 and subdivision 3 of Section 43 of its By-Laws, relating to the rating of teachers.-Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation June 9, 1915. (See Journal, page 944.)

21. Communication from the Board of Superintendents, recommending that subdivisions 7 and 8 of Section 51 of the By-Laws of the Board of Education, relating to the assignment of additional teachers and the appointment of assistants to principals, be amended.-Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation and the Committee on Elementary Schools June 9, 1915. (See Journal, pages 944-45.)

22. Communication from the Board of Superintendents, recommending that nine classes for anæmic children "be established and equipped” in rooms specified in Public Schools 20, 22, 64, 75, 88, 91, 177, 188, G., and 14, Manhattan.-Referred to the Committee on Elementary Schools June 23, 1915. (See Journal, page 1021.)

23. Communication from the Board of Superintendents, recommending "that at least one city block of land be purchased in the vicinity of Public School 57, Queens, and that a building of 36 classroom units be erected thereon, with various shops, a large auditorium, a large gymnasium, domestic science rooms, and other features, so that the so-called 'Gary school plan' may be tried in that locality, under conditions as favorable as possible."-Referred to the Committee on Vocational Schools and Industrial Training June 23, 1915. (See Journal, page 1023.)

24. Communication from the Acting City Superintendent of Schools, submitting nominations of two persons to be employed, as needed during the year 1915, as assistants to the Board of Examiners.-Referred to the Committee on Elementary Schools June 23, 1915. (See Journal, page

1026.)

25. Reports from the Teachers' Council in reference to (a) truancy in ungraded classes and (b) extending the term of the evening elementary schools. Referred to the Committee on Special Schools June 23, 1915. (See Journal, pages 1046--48.)

Numerous items included in the report of a Special Committee (Mr. (CHURCHILL) adopted on October 9, 1912 (see Journal, pages 1875-79), relative to reports received from members of the Board of Superintendents and others, and sundry items relating to evening schools, art in high schools and shopwork in elementary schools, referred on October 23, 1912

(see Journal, pages 1965-67), are under consideration by the Committee on Studies and Text-Books and the Board of Superintendents.

The report on "Over-age and Method of Determining Over-age," submitted to the Committee on School Inquiry of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, was referred on May 28, 1913 (see Journal, page 968), to the Committee on Elementary Schools.

Sundry recommendations contained in the report of the Special Committee on Ungraded Classes were referred to the Board of Superintendents on May 27, 1914. (See Journal, pages 1206-07.)

Ordered to be printed in the Minutes and filed.

On motion of Mr. STEIN, it was ordered that items 6 and 15 in the foregoing communication be omitted hereafter, as the subject matter thereof is no longer under consideration by the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation; that item 14 be omitted for the reason that said Committee has been informed that there is not financial ability to carry out the proposed amendment, and that item 16 be omitted for the reason that Mrs. Dunphy is no longer in the service of the Department of Public Charities.

2. From the Board of Superintendents, communications as summarized below, on which action was taken as indicated:

Referred to the Committee on Buildings for such action as may be neces

sary:

(a) June 25, 1915-Recommending changes in the district offices of the Bureau of Attendance in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Referred to the Committee on By-Laws and Legislation:

(b) June 28, 1915-Recommending that Section 65, subdivision 35, of the By-Laws of the Board of Education, in reference to substitutes in vocational or trade schools, be amended.

(c) July 9, 1915-Recommending amendments to Section 94m of the By-Laws of the Board of Education, in reference to qualifications for license as principal of a vocational or trade school.

Referred to the Committee on Elementary Schools:

(d) June 29, 1915—Requesting the Board of Education to include in its Budget for the year 1916 $17,000 for the employment of seventeen visiting teachers, making the number of such teachers twenty-five.

(e) June 29, 1915-Recommending that old Public School 95, Brooklyn, be discontinued as an elementary school, and that new Public School 95, Brooklyn, be organized as an elementary school for boys and girls of all grades, with a kindergarten.

(f) July 3, 1915-Recommending that, on the opening of new Public School 178, Brooklyn, Public School 155 be "reorganized so as to include all grades for girls from kindergarten to 8B, both inclusive, and all grades for boys from kindergarten to 6B, both inclusive."