
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 1, 1990                   TAG: 9005010392
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

TEACHER PAY AVERAGE TOPS $31,000

Classroom teachers will earn an average of $31,304 this school year, but the National Education Association says pay equity among the states is still a big problem.

NEA President Keith Geiger said Monday the estimated salary average for the 1989-90 school year is 5.9 percent higher in current dollars than the previous year's revised figure of $29,547.

" . . . this is still not an adequate wage for the professional services teachers perform," Geiger said. He said more than half of all teachers hold a master's degree or a six-year diploma.

Teachers have an average of 15 years experience in the classroom, he said.

-Associated Press

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