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Continued from page 1 Virginia’s 136 school divisions in starting salary; last year, the county plummeted to 127th.)
Updike noted that Reeve’s proposal helped correct the top end of the scale (where in terms of highest salary paid, Rappahannock had fallen from 81st to 128th).
“That certainly is very critical,” he conceded, but maintained that inclusion of teacher bonuses would give the school board greater flexibility to absorb any budget cuts made by the supervisors.
The supervisors warned that the axe is coming in a resolution they adopted on March 3. Stating that they were responding to “fiscal duty” and federal and state reductions (despite the School Board’s projection of $100,000 or so increase in state money), the supervisors
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