Volume 53
Public Law 76–39
To provide for the appointment of research assistants in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Approved April 5, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the appointment of research assistants in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Board of
Public schools.
Research assistants; appointment, qualifications, salary.
Education is hereby authorized to appoint research assistants who shall qualify for said positions by meeting such eligibility requirements as the said Board may prescribe and who shall on appointment be assigned to salary class 2 of article I of the Teachers’ Salary Act,
7 D. C. Code § 31.
approved June 4, 1924, in accordance with the professional qualifications which they possess at the time of appointment.
Sec. 2.
Research assistants shall be appointed to either group A or group C of said salary class 2 in accordance with the eligibility qualifications possessed and the character of duties to be performed by such research assistants.
Sec. 3.
Research assistants shall be promoted to group B or group D of said salary class 2 on the basis of such evidence of superior work and increased professional attainments as the Board of Education may prescribe.
Sec. 4.
That research assistants shall be classified as teachers for
Classification for pay-roll and retirement purposes.
pay-roll purposes and for retirement purposes.
Sec. 5.
Appointments, assignments, and transfers authorized in
Manner of making appointments, assignments, etc.
this Act shall be made in accordance with the Act approved June 20, 1906, as amended (Public, Numbered 254). Sec . 6. This Act shall take effect on July
Sec. 6.
This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1939.
Effective date.
Approved, April 5, 1939.