Word: deficiteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deficit & Discontent. In each case, the teachers' basic demand was for higher salaries. Although a few dioceses-notably San Francisco and New Orleans-pay their laymen salaries that compare favorably with public school scales, the vast majority in effect require teachers to subsidize the schools by personal sacrifice. At Alemany, for example, the starting wage of lay faculty members before the new contract was $4,000 a year, compared with $6,220 at nearby public high schools. In addition, most parochial school systems have painfully inadequate tenure, pension and medical-insurance programs, provide little chance for laymen to advance...
...Philadelphia's archdiocesan secondary school system, which serves 59,000 pupils, has risen from $4,500,000 to $8,500,000. New building needs, plus the recent teacher settlement, which resulted in annual salary increases of from $300 to $1,000, threaten to create a $1,000,000 deficit in the next school year...
...Teaching Fellows' request for a raise in pay: we just don't have the money. It may seem faintly ridiculous for an institution with Harvard's riches to plead poverty, but' the University is clearly in a financial squeeze. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences' budget contains a substantial deficit this year, and will probably run one next year too. The Federation's suggestions would cost Harvard $700,000 at a time when, as President Pusey said last week, "We're going to see more red ink around the 'University than we've seen in the past 20 years...
...undertake no action, for the present or in the immediate future, as regards the rate of pay of the Teaching Fellow senior grade, since the funds for such an increase are not available. Indeed, given the Faculty's deficit for the current year and the grim outlook for 1967-68, our principal concern must be with efforts to control expenditures, though obviously not at the expense of graduate fellowships alone...
...turning down the pay request, the paper called attention to the current deficit of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and "the grim outlook...