Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 14: November 1948 Thousands of citizens answered a questionnaire which asked them whether they preferred to overcome the acute shortage of teachers by rais ing salaries or by lowering standards. The replies indicated that most favor ed raising salaries. Only about three out of each hundred who answered suggested lowering standards. The average salary suggested by citizens was slightly more than $2400 per year for ten months of service. The Commission proposes many steps which it thinks must be taken to provide a well-trained teacher for every child in the state. Among these are: scholarships to induce capable young people to prepare for teaching; increased salaries ranging from $2400. To $3900 for ten months of work; reduced class load to 27'to 30 pupils; ten days of sick leave per year without loss of pay; improved living and working conditions; and improved training programs at the various institutions in the state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.