Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1918 — No Pay For Teachers When Schools Close [ARTICLE]

No Pay For Teachers When Schools Close

Ele Stansbury, attorney general of Indiana, has prepared an opinion for Horace Ellis, superintendent of public instruction, in which he said he would hold that the school teachers throughout Indiana —except in certain places, where special cojtracts between township trustees or other school -officials and teachers exist —will*not be entitled to pay for the two days lost through the operation of school-closing order from federal fuel administrators. The opinion will not apply to Indianapolis teachers, Mr. Stansbury said, since they are employed under contracts different from those under which the majority of the outside teachers are working. The state superintendent’s office recently promulgated a model contract, under which the majority of all teachers are working, it was said at Mr. Ellis’ office, and is to the teachers that the Stansbury opinion will apply. The opinion, however, will give away to the trustees or other school officials to hold schools later than usual, or to let the teachers make up the time by holding school on Saturdays, v in case the trustee or teaehers so desire.