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The supervisors approved the School Board’s proposed $3 million budget virtually intact on Monday, giving teachers a 12 percent salary increase.
But they served notice that future expenditures — particularly the long awaited high school expansion slated to begin this spring —will get closer scrutiny.
“To me, the most important thing is to have adequately paid teachers,” said Supervisor Newbill Miller. “We hear a constant complaint that our salaries aren’t adequate and I think, that’s correct.” Butj Mr. Mittef Siskedi liditf can thfe board pay its teachers enough to bring them up from the bottom 20 percent in salary ranking in the state and, at the same time, stop the upward spiral of the county’s tax rate? “it’s a vicious cycle that occurs every
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