Other subjects also will be understood to include the various courses which
may come under them. A teacher of two or more subjects was usually classified

under the first named. This was not true if, for example, history were
named first but three classes in science followed. This person was considered
to be a teacher of science.

As compared with salce.ies of teachers in similer subjects and similar
groups of schools a year earlier, the monthly salaries for this year as
reported in Table IV average $20.00 higher for teachers in group A schools,
and $24.00 higher for teachers in the schcols of group B. Thus it appears
that the salaries of high schcol teachers in general have increased about
$200.00 per year, since one year agc. These increases vary from $14.00
per month in two of the subjects listed to $32.00 in two cther subjects.

Granting that these average increases in the salaries of school employees
are creditable and encouraging tc those whe are sincerely interested in
the welfare of the public schtols of Kansas, it appears urgent that salary
adjustments upward for teachers should be carried much further. Not only
are many schools paying salaries far below the averages stated, but those
which pay average salaries will tend to lose their better teachers to other
schools whcse salaries are more nearly adequate. There is a denial of
educational opportunity to these children whe must attend schools that do
not attract and retain competent teachers. Supericr teachers can demand more
than average salariss.

Next in significance to this egretifying trend toward more suiteble
compensation of teachers is the evidence that better professicn:l and academi.c
preperation of teachers commands better compensation. In many schocls the
difference in salary according te teacher preparaticn is clear and definite.
Conversely, it should be recognized that low salaries usually buy the services
of teachers more peorly prepared, as is indicated by the evidence in
Table V. Only a fraction of the schools considered in this study provided
the information needed fcr this tabulation.

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Table V - Relaticn c: Teachers’ Salaries to the Extent cf Academic
and Professional Preparaticn, 1944-45

Index of Number of iledien selary Middle fifty per
preparation teachers per month cent of salaries

 

 

No college degree 180 $158.00 $137.00 -- 169.00

Bachelor degree 174 cy5,00 161.00 -- 184.00
Master degree 7 TOL .00. a eee ee +

. In High Schools

No college degree 25 164.00 eee HR Her
Bachelor degree L12 182.00 178.00 -—— 231.50
Master degree 288 244.00 204.00 -- 255.00