ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TEACHERS APPOINTMENT BUREAU

September 1, 1942 to August 31, 1943

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Following the pattern set last. year only a brief sun-.
mery of the activities of the Teachers Appointment Bureau has _
been prepared for general distribution. Formerly an extensive
report going into considerable detail was mimeogrephed. In>
view of the necessity for economy it has seemed unwise to pre-
pare such a detailed statement this year. All the data es--
sential for the complete account have been collected and are.
aveilable in the secretary's office. Interested persons ere
cordially invited to consult the secretary at sny time re-
gerding any aspects of our work.

REGISTRATION OF CANDIDATES

During the past year we had 572 registrants. This is
a decrease of 172 or 23.5 per cent from the registration of ©
748 for last year. It is the smallest registration in the |
lest ten year period. Of this number 84 were enrolled for
the first time, 59 renewed previous registrations, and 429
were cerried over from the previous year because the period
for which they hed paid their fee had not expired. Up to Au-
gust 31 ef the current year 261 of the 429 have been with-
drewn for failure to renew registrations. We now have 321
persons on our list to be carried over to the coming appoint-
ment yeer. Of thése 307 are experienced or will be getting
experience this year, end 14 are without experience. Of the
307 our records show 246 regularly employed in teaching, 9 in
defense work, 3 in the U. S. Army, 7 married and mainteining
homes, 6 in business and professional work, 1 in graduate —
school, 1 deceased, 29 employed in miscellaneous jobs, and 5
unknown. Of the 14 inexperienced candidates 6 are married,
3 are in business, 1 is in graduate school, and 4 are unem-
ployed. This means that only four of our present registrants
are unemployed end that the status of five other is unknown.

Since there is no indication that the menpower demands
of the war and defense program will be less it is apparent
that we shall have fewer available candidates next year Un-—
less more students can be induced to enter teaching as a pa=
triotic duty the outlook for ‘schools is not bright.