Two out of every five residents of New York City are Jews and the ratio of Jewish to non-Jewish public school pupils is approximately the same, according to the Jewish Teachers Association, but Jewish teachers number less than one-fifth of the total of 36,000.
This disproportion is even more flagrant in other categories of the city school system, figures presented in the bulletin of the organization show.
In the Bureau of Plant Operation, with a personnel of seven, there are no Jews whatever. The same condition obtains in the Bureau of Supplies and the Bureau of Construction and Maintenance, staffed by seven and twelve persons, respectively, the results of the survey indicate.
The percentage of Jewish high school principals is nine; of continuation and industrial schools, twenty; of junior high schools, twenty – three; of elementary schools, nineteen.
Of thirty district superintendents, a scant three are Jews, while only one member of the Board of Education is a Jew. The only classification in which Jews are represented anywhere near the same ratio as Jewish pupils is the Board of Examiners which, with two Jews and seven non-Jews, has a Jewish percentage of twenty-nine.
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