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Show Grand Teacher Contracts Beinq Issued This Weefc Contracts for the next school year are now being sent to teachers in Grand County School District, following an agreement reached last Wed nesday between the Grand District Board of Education and representatives of the Grand Education Association. New contracts will include a ten per cent increase in saiarv over last year's schedule, which is near the level most school districts across the slate are settling around. The negotiations came following a preliminary analysis of the fiscal picture for the next school year, by the Board and Superintendent Bill B. Mea-dor. Mea-dor. The new schedule w ill mean that a teacher wilh a bachelor's bache-lor's degree will begin his teaching career in Grand County for S7.627. Maximum for a bachelor's degree holder after thirteen years of service, will be SI 1.440 under the new schedule. sche-dule. Holders of bachelor's degrees plus 24 hours of college w ork aimed at a higher degree will begin at S7.9J2; master's degree holders will begin at S8.237. and those with master's plus 24 hours will begin at S8.542. The contract negotiation portion of the meeting was first on the agenda Wednesday Wednes-day and took only a few-minutes. few-minutes. Grand District, it was noted, is still near the bottom of the comparative salary schedule for the forty school : districts in the state. This i year's increase may move the ' district up a notch or two, but not much, Superintendent Mcador staled. In other action, the Board authorized Clerk Elmer Dra-vage Dra-vage to advertise for bids on tax anticipation notes not to exceed S225.000, to finance |