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Show JORDAN TEACHERS ACCEPTONTRACTS Contracts offered by the Jordan Jor-dan School District Board of Education Edu-cation were accepted by a 214 to 68 vote cf the teachers Monday afternoon after a misunderstanding misunderstand-ing in the pay schedule was explained ex-plained by administrators. A teacher faction opposing the acceptance, led by Bill Boren and Melvin Berrett, Jordan High teachers, had called a protest meeting after it was discovered that the program they adopted was apparently $200 a year higher high-er than the actual figures being made up in contracts. H. W. Jorgensen, assistant superintendent, su-perintendent, pointed out that teacners had approved a minimum mini-mum and a maximum figure but that the increments had been left up to the board. The new schedule actually reduces re-duces the number of steps in the salary schedule from 16 to 15. 'This means teachers will reach their maximum pay figure one year earlier, or at the end of the 15th year," Mr. Jorgensen explained. In the meeting Monday, held at Midvale Junior High School, teachers were told their contracts would include a minimum of $3,708 for beginning teachers with bachelor degrees and $5,762 after 15 years' service. |