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Show Teachers accept board offer of $5830 base pay for coming year Kor comparative purposes, beginning salaries in Wash-ington Wash-ington and Beaver Counties are $5900.00 and $5950.00, re-sportively, re-sportively, as compared to $5830.00 in Iron County. Master's Mast-er's degree maximum's in Washington and Beaver Coun-ties Coun-ties are $9152.00 and $9175.00, respectively, a.s compared to 39328.00 in Iron County. Several Sev-eral districts in the state have MS maximums which exceed $10,000.00. Two districts, Lo-gan Lo-gan and Cache, have BS max-.mums max-.mums which reach $9360.00. x figure comparable to the MS maximums in Beaver, Washington, and Iron Counties. In a special session held August 6, the Iron County Board of Education completed negotiations with representatives representa-tives of the Iron County Education Edu-cation Association. Contracts to school personnel are currently cur-rently being processed and mailed for signatures. The new salary schedule includes a beginning salary of $5830.00 for persons with a BS degree. This is a $500.00 increase. The BS maximum is reached at the beginning of the tenth year in the profession pro-fession and is listed as $80-15. The same step on th. sched ule last year was $7356.00 or an increase of $689.00. The bachelor degree salary lane was reduced In the number of years required to reach the maximum. Last year the schedule contained 13 steps and has now beei. reduced to 9 steps. The en. result Is the teachers with a BS degree cannot progress or. the salary schedule after th 9th step unless they return tc school for additional educa tion. Persons with an MS de gree, for example, may pro gross on the salary schedule to a 13th step. This provision encourage teachers to get additiona training if they desire salary increases. The new MS beginning salary sal-ary is listed at $6296.00 a. compared to $5756 for las year. The maximum goes t( $9328.00 after the 13th year. |