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Whatever else public school teachers may get out of teaching, some of them are beginning to get money. Last week the National Education Association hap pily reported that in at least 75 school systems in the U.S. (out of 28,738) the maximum salary for classroom teachers is $11,000 a year or higher. The best-paying system of all is Beverly Hills, Calif., with a $14,000 maximum for holders of doctorates. Of the 75 systems on the N.E.A. list, 49 are in New York, mostly in suburban counties near New York City. The other high-maximum systems...
...average salary of U.S. classroom teachers, however, is $5,735, only slightly higher than the average pay of factory workers. That helps explain why nearly three-quarters of the nation's men teachers work at moonlighting jobs...
Wallace called upon the state school board to ignore the United States Supreme Court decision that declared un constitutional the reading of prayers and the Bible as a part of prescribed classroom exercise. The board did so, ordered that school devotionals continue, and for good measure condemned the court for "trying to take God out of the public affairs of this nation." For his part, Wallace vowed that if the Supreme Court should try to stop Bible reading in any Alabama school, "I'm going to that school and read it myself...
Union-Made. Nonetheless, the union has doubled its membership since Megel took over in 1952. It does well in industrial areas, notably in the Midwest. It claims 50% of Detroit's classroom teachers and 75% of Chicago's, although neither city yet recognizes it as sole bargaining agent. It is strong in Milwaukee and Gary. But its prize is New York, the nation's biggest school system, where it claims 20,000 teachers and speaks for all the others. To cheer on New York, the union will hold its national convention there next week and shout...
...millennium in most places. To that end, President Megel steers what he calls "a progressive, dynamic course, aimed at closer affiliation with the A.F.L.-C.I.O." As he sees it, "salary is still the unmistakable measurement of the desirability of a job, whether shoveling coal or teaching in a classroom...