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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TEACHERS APPOINTMENT BUREAU

September 1, 1943 to August 31, 1944
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Following the plan of the last two years only a brief
summary of the activities of the Teachers Appointment Bureau
has been prep@red for general distribution. Formerly an ex-=
tensive report going into considerable detail was mimeograph-
ed. In view of the necessity for economy and because of the
shortage of teaching candidates, it has seemed unwise to pre-
pare such a detailed statement this years All the data es-
sential for the complete account have been collected and are
available in the secretary's office. Interested persons are
cordially invited to consult the secretary at any time regard-
ing any aspects of our worke

REGISTRATION OF CANDIDATES

During the past year we had 412 registrants. This is
a decrease of 160 or 28.1 per cent from the registration of
572 for last year. It is the smallest registration in the
last ten year period. Of this number 40 were enrolled for
the first time, 51 renewed previous registrations, and 321
were carried over from the previous year because the period
for which they had paid their fee had not expired. Up to Au-
gust 31 of the current yeer 206 of the 321 have been with-
drawn for failure to renew registrations. We now have 206
persons on our list to be carried over to the coming appoint-
ment year. Of these 192 are experienced or will be getting
experience this year, and 14 are without experience. Of the
192 our records show 160 regularly employed in teaching, 12
irregularly employed, 9 in war or government work, 3 married
and maintaining homes, 2 in school, 1 in private business,
and 5 unknown. Of the 14 inexperienced candidetes 5 are mar-
ried, 1 is in business, and 6 are not regulerly employed. Thiw
means that none of our present registrants are unemployed un-
less it be one of the five whose status is unknown.

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There seems to be no present indication that there will
be more candidates available for teaching positions next year,
A few may return from the armed forces but the prospect of
many returning from employment in industry is dim. Until we
return to something like normal enrollments in teacher train-
ing institutions the outlook for schools is not bright,