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agreed with Masterson that the state had shortchanged them without being told on what or how, and at Thursday’s meeting they were glad Masterson had facts to substantiate what they all had long suspected was true.
RAPPAHANNOCK is 48th among the 130 school jurisdictions in Virginia in what they actually pay their teachers, while in population, retail sales and other figures, Rappahannock is around 127 or 128. But according to the state formula, Rappahannock is listed as third in the state of Virginia in “ability to pay,” Masterson said.
The Virginia Education Association has not helped matters any, Masterson said. In the past they have sent teachers information on the county’s “ability to pay” and have encouraged them to agitate for higher salaries in line with that “ability to pay,” without explaining the artificial and misrepresentative nature of the “ability to pay” figure, Masterson said.
The Supervisors nodded their heads in agreement with everything Masterson said and thanked him and Adkins for the work they’d done, once their presentation was through.
“We got to convince the legislature to change this,” H. B. Wood said. Masterson said French Slaughter had concluded the same thing. Slaughter hopes the legislature can work out some way to tie the school tax to actual land use. Then the tax would correspond more closely to the personal income figure, and the productive value of
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