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reat part on the state aid,” tie noted. "In the past,” Bomberger esponded, “teachers haven’t mown what their salary for he next year would be until he last day of school or ometimes, not until the niddle of the summer.” This nakss it difficult for teachers o look for another job if the alary offered by Raplahnnock proves inadequate, le maintained. Bomberger iffered any help that teachers :ouid produce in speeding up he salary decision process. “The School Board’s lands are tied until the loard of Supervisors acts to ipprove the budget,” replied drs. Massie. She noted that he local governing body held he “power of the purse trings” but in turn had to vait for the General Vssembly to appropriate money to the State Department of Education who then iinneled money to the local urisdictions before the local School Boards could submit budgets to their supervisors. ‘That’s the chain of command,” she concluded, adding that she didn’t think Rappahannock teachers could do much to speed up the process.
In other action, the School Board approved a five-year vocational plan for the county school system, almost without looking at the long document.
“I’m sorry we don’t have longer to review this,” Mrs. Massie apologized to vocational committee members in the audience. She pointed out that the vocational plan had to be approved, signed and cent to the State Department of Education before the end of January.
While quickly going over components of the plan, Superintendent William Bloomer noted that criticism had been directed against the lack of an agricultural
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