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DOUG BAUMGARDNER ere, with the promise of loss of state aid as punishment to any school district which failed to provide at least that minimum increase. This carrot and stick approach has resulted in teachers’ and administrators’ salaries in the county coming more into line with those in surrounding and more urban counties.
However, fiscal year 1987-88 is the last year during which that state mandate holds. There is widespread interest not only in Rappahannock, but throughout the state, in whether local governments will continue to advance salaries at a comparable rate.
The feeling in the educational community is that salaries, although better than they were several years ago, are still lagging behind private industry. Career educators worry that, in years to come, it will be more and more difficult to attract motivated, talented graduates into the education field when private industry is offering significantly better compensation.
Mandated programs continue
. The state and federal governments have also saddled 1 school districts with an increasing number of mandated
(See FORUM, p. 18)
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