The Ironton News

Ohio Schools
To Open With
Drastic Cuts
Hundreds of thousands of school children are skipping back to school in Ohio this week and thousands more will follow them next Monday, but only a few know how long they will stay.
Some schools will open late and many will close early next spring. Meantime, they will depend on drastically reduced budgets to allow them to limp through as much of the regular routine as possible.
Dayton public schools will not open until Sept. 26, because of lack of funds pending delayed tax distributions. Still further curtailment of the 12-week fall session may become expedient.
Dayton schools will be operated on a three-day a-week basis for high schools and a half-day basis for grades. Teachers' salaries have been pared 12 per cent. Married teachers have been eliminated.
Unlike Columbus and some other state cities, however, Dayton will not dispense with kindergartens.
Youngstown, like Dayton, will open its schools two weeks late. They probably will be closed two weeks early. Salaries have been cut 10 per cent and sick leaves dropped. This in the face of a prospective enrollment increase.
A few of Cleveland's poorer suburbs faced the probability of being unable to support any schools at all as the state's biggest registration, 80,000, was recorded this week.
Cleveland teachers took pay cuts ranging from 5 to 20 per cent in an economy move estimated to save $2,500,000.
There was no definite assurance of a full term but Toledo pressed ahead this week with plans for re-opening the public schools next week. Kindergartens will be retained but a 10 per cent salary cut was effected among married teachers who were rehired.
Schools at Ironton also will open Monday.
With 40 per cent fewer teachers, Cincinnati saw 3,725 children return to classes this week—an increase of 1,000 over last year.