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...Southerners earn only one-eighth of the national income, foot one-sixth of the nation's public-school bill...
...girls stole money from her mother's apartment. The older girls began feuding with Margaret and her brother, William, who threw a bottle which cut Madeline. Last autumn the older girls' teacher began giving them as much special attention as was possible in the busy public-school life. The girls, too, made an effort, got As in deportment. This term they had slipped back to Bs, but the teacher still had hopes for them...
...Last week a Senate coalition of Republicans and northern Democrats, led by Ohio's Robert A. Taft, defeated the perennially ill-starred bill which would have provided $300,000,000 in Federal funds to help states hold public-school staffs together. The coalition did this by hooking an amendment to the bill: Southern Democrats were forced to choose between 1) putting Negro education on a par with white in order to get Federal aid, and 2) doing without Federal aid The Southerners decided to do without...
Ickes went on to college (University of Chicago), paying for himself almost entirely by odd-jobbery and teaching Eng lish to Scandinavians at a public-school night shift. His food for some months was "one 15? meal a day," and when he won his sheepskin in 1897 his clothes were "too shabby and worn" for him to go up to the platform for it. Newspapers helped to keep him warm in bed - the only period in his life when the Chicago Tribune helped him to sleep...
...public-school teachers, principals and supervisors, 40% are paid less than $1,200 annually. Nearly 8% are paid less than $600 for the present school year. Living costs have advanced over 20%, teachers' salaries less than 7%. As salaries rise in industry and private employment, teacher shortages appear in the best-paying city systems, are intensified in rural areas. Unless a way is found to relieve the financial difficulties of teachers, our schools will suffer and millions of our children will be handicapped for life. If our schools are to carry effectively the increased wartime burdens, they must have...