Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 14, 1993 TAG: 9305140241
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURA WILLIAMSON STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Raises for the 1993-94 school year will now range from 2.62 percent to 5.77 percent, said Jerry Hardy, director of budget and data management. Under the old plan, teachers would have received raises ranging from 2.5 percent to 4.8 percent, or an average pay increase of 3 percent.
The extra money came from increased sales tax projections amounting to $111,000 plus $234,000 recently handed to the schools by the Board of Supervisors, which approved its $77 million budget Tuesday.
The School Board used the unexpected bonus to split one step in the salary scale into three separate steps, so that teachers with four to 11 years of experience would no longer earn the same salary of $25,193.
The new scale raises salaries for teachers with four years of experience to $25,475 and combines teachers with five to eight years of experience at an annual salary of $26,100. Teachers with nine to 12 years of experience will all earn $26,600 under the new scale.
But all teachers will benefit, Hardy said, because the new scale spreads it out across all levels of experience.
Under the new scale, entry-level salaries for Roanoke County teachers will climb $700, to $24,700. All other school employees will receive across-the-board raises of 3 percent, Hardy said.
"We're pleased with it," said Becky Deaton, president of the Roanoke County Education Association. "Of course we're still way behind, but it's hard to make up for two years [of little or no raises]."
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