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School Board Chairman Montague said kindergarten enrollment may go down after parents get tired of getting small children off to school during the winter. Then the county would suffer a loss of state funds for education. “I think this makes the law most inequitable.”
Montague said conceivably enrollment could drop to where only one teacher would be required while the county would be stuck with contracts for two teachers.
Norton noted that due to kindergarten, Rappahannock would receive an increased percentage of state funds compared to local funds used for education. He said the projected budget was based on 56 per cent state funds and 44 per cent local.
‘‘How do our salaries compare to those offered by surrounding counties?” asked Luke.
Norton answered that other localities paid teachers from $200 to $600 higher than Rappahannock. Beginning salaries are more out of line than those at the top of the scale, said Norton. To correct this, the School Board put more emphasis on the bottom of the scale this year, resulting in a “much more equitable salary schedule than we’ve ever presented to you before,” Norton told the Supervisors.
He added that there was still a difference between the increases granted teachers, with some getting more than five per cent raises and some leSS. ' • ' * «"• • •
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