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The Rappahannock County Education Association presented the school board on Tuesday night with an indexed salary scale that uses a starting figure for 1982-83 of $12,740, a 10.4 percent increase over current pay for beginning teachers.
According to RCEA spokesman Richard Smith, the 10.4 percent increase reflects the average cost of living rise for the past year, a figure taken from the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index.
The indexed salary scale with what is essentially a three percent pay raise for each year of teaching experience is “designed for the career teacher,” said Smith. Raises of more than three percent come after the third year of teaching when four percent increase is suggested at the same time the teacher is put under continuing contract. At that point, said Smith, "the board has made a decision this is a valuable person to have in the school system.”
Four percent raises come also after seven and eight years, a time when teachers traditionally decide wheather to stay with the system or not, he said.
After the 16th year of teaching—a point the scale recognizes as maximum salary at one-and-a-half times the starting pay a beginning teacher receives—raises drop down to two percent awarded for every three additional years experience. "Basically, it’s a sign of appreciation to the teacher who’s given a whole career to Rappahannock County,” Smith said.
The same 10.4 percent cost of living raise the RCEA proposed be applied to the existing starting salary for teachers is also being suggested for bachelor and masters degree supplements.
26 Percent Hike
In State Funds
As for funding the proposed salary increase.
87.3%