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Show &QjGm Stated, PnjmL QREM-GENEVA TEIE3 Thurtdsy, August 16, 1S52 Titos lh)0 Hosipdl if idlio! , ,f,. mm TDu MDplirD EdlojisifiDrD Asiigiftijuu DS0J1S ouftiFgfe Wv Tito DlD YogiF Tuesday evening, August 14, 1962, at a regular meeting of the Alpine Dis: trict Board of Education, the Alpine Education Association and the Board of Education discussed contractual differences. The 1962-63 contract will have several changes from previous contracts. i These include (1) a more liberal sick leave policy, (2) a more liberal awarding award-ing of past experience to teachers who enter the district for the first timei (3) , the individual option of taking pay in nine or twelve months, arid (4) the setting set-ting up of a tax sheltered annuity program in which the teachers may invest. These four items were resolved several months ago, Salary differences have not yet been settled. The Board of Education has offered an increase of $100 in salary on all steps of the salary schedule below 5,000 and two per cent increase in the salary schedule on all steps above 5,000. The teachers of the Alpine School District suggested that a salary in-dex in-dex schedule would tend to develop satisfaction among the teachers. An 'index 'in-dex schedule usesas its base the minimumsalary paid to certified teachers. For each year of experience a teacher would receive a percentage above the base rather than a set dollar figure. The teachers association requested an index which would grant 180 per cent of the minimum salary to teachers after 12 years of experience. A salary schedule comparable to that which was requested request-ed could have been initiated had the request for additional funds (voted Leeway) Lee-way) from the public been approved at the election in February. The strength of an index schedule is that is insures to all employees an equitable share of the money that can be expended for i salaries. The Board of Education and Administrative Staff of the district has on many occasions indicated its belief in an index schedule and has assured the Teachers' Association that it will move as rapidly as possible toward the implementation im-plementation of an index schedule. ' A problem that is of major'concern to the Teachers' Association and the Board of Education is the problem of teacher turnover that exists in the district. dis-trict. Ninety-nine teachers resigned effective June 1, 1962. In addition to find- ing replacements for these teachers, twenty-two teachers have been employed em-ployed to teach because of the increased number of students attending the district schools. With' this many new teachers, the educational program of the district could be affected iri a negative way, The Board of Education and the Teachers' Association both feef that a better salary schedule will tend to decrease teacher turnover. ' : ; ' . ; Recently the Coordinating Agencies for Public Schools (CAPS) has been alerting responsible people over the entire state of the need for " additional funds on which to operate Utah schools. The Board of Education has endorsed endor-sed the, program of CAPS which calls for an increase of 1'3 in the maintenance main-tenance and operation program. .The CAPS organization is comprised of the Utah School Boards Association, the Utah State Board of Education, Utah Congress of Parent and Teachers Association, Utah Education Association and the Society of Superintendents. " CAPS has indicated a need for financial backing of the educational program pro-gram in Utah comparable to the mountain states- average,' At the present time. Utah is next to the lowest in the mountain states iri expenditure per child, The local Board of Education is further concerned because only two districts dis-tricts out of forty in Utah spend less money per child than does the Alpine District. Dis-trict. At the same time the local board spends all funds available to it. The average pupil expenditure per child in the mountain states is approximately approximate-ly 420.00, in Utah the average expenditure is 318.00 and in Alpine the average aver-age expenditure is 289.00. Both the Alpine School District and : the state figures must be changed if this area te to maintain a good educational system. , -", -. The Board of Education solicits the help of all patrons of this district to improve the educational program it is ible to offer youth! The good teachers that are in the district want to stay here, and the Board of Education wants to encourage them by paying comparable salaries and providing good working work-ing conditions. J. MURRAY RAWSON R. PHIL SHUMWAY BOYD L. FUGAL . FRANK C. GREENWOOD BOYD J. LARSEN 1 |