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rience and advanced degrees.
“Are we rewarding them for advancement and training opportunities.’ Yes. ves we are.” he said.
Mills said that keeping teacher salaries in step with other counties is a prtortty for the school board.
“The very first thing that happens every vear is ... to get a pay raise for the teachers.” he said.
And Mills said that increases m the education budget have brought benefits to the students.
“L thmk we have a lot to oiler our students and I thunk our students are evidence of that because they are able to compete and get into the schools they want to get into.” he said. “Anything they wanted to do. we were hoping we would provide that.” he added.
The iOOdr^OOg school-year budget states that “lajii. our budget requests ultimately are driven by our need for contuiual improvement in student performance.”
To the schools' credit, scores on most state Standards of Learning (SOD tests increased overall between dOOli and 2007 And
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