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state in starting pay. “Down again; we’ve been going down every year since I got here,” the RCHS math chairman noted. “We ranked 132nd out of 134 school divisions in the actual average salary paid teachers . . . 111th in the highest teacher salary with a bachelor’s degree.”
At the same time, the state puts Rappahannock 10th from the top of the list when it comes to ability to pay for education, but down at 126th in effort to pay, Mrs. LaCava pointed out. •
“I’ve heard people complain that the composite index is unfair. But if we were talking about a student whose potential and performance were so far apart, I’d be on the phone to the parents, I’d be down the hall to guidance, and I’d be filling out every referral slip I could find!”
(The composite index figure, arrived at through a complicated formula based primarily on income of local residents, sales tax revenue, and land values as determined by actual sales figures, is used by the state to judge a locality’s ability to raise local tax dollars to pay for education. Correspondingly, it also determines the amount of basic aid a locality receives from Richmond.)
Given these facts - Rappahannock’s ranking near the top in ability and near the bottom in effort and teachers’ salaries - if the county continues to hold raises to what is or
92.9%