Representatives from the s

Representatives from the s Rappahannock Education Association presented salary equests for the coming year o School Board members at ast week’s Board meeting. Before going into detail on lalary and fringe benefit I proposals. Association jcesidant Donald Bombargar old the School Board nembers that teachers didn’t ;xpect them to go alone to lie Supervisors and ask for nore money. "We pledge our tupport to show the Supervisors that teachers are worth what they’re being >aid,’’ he promised. Susan Hrbek, chairman of he salary committee, read (alary requests that call for a (700 increase for each step in the teacher pay scale plus the addition of a fifteenth rtep. Under the proposed new tcale, starting teachers with a bachelors degree would receive $9,200. For a B.S. degree plus 15 hours of graduate credits, a new teacher would be paid $9,700 and for a masters degree, $10,200. According to the salary proposal, teachers would get an increment of $250 for every year in the county system that would result in a teacher with 15 year’s experience and a B.S. degree being paid $12,950.

When compared to other Virginia localities, said Mrs. Hrbek, Rappahannock ranks only thirteen from the bottom out of 134 jurisdictions on the basis of teacher salary scale.

In a related salary proposal, the teacher’s association asked that a percentage based extra duty pay schedule be approved. Under the proposed schedule, class advisors, club sponsors and grad chairmen would receive 1.5 percent of their base salary as payment for their extra duties; cheerleader advisors would get two percent; annual advisors 3.5 percent; assistant baseball and eighth grade basketball coaches four percent; coaches for girls and boys track, cross country, girls and boys junior varsity basketball arid baseball six percent; athletic directors