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Argie's Wife · 03-10-2010, 06:51 PM

I mean this sincerely (not being a joker or smartypants here...) but did you read the link I gave you? It does a good job of explaining why M'boro's teachers seem to get paid more. The same website where I got that link from also has the recommendations of the budget committee and the teachers' association. It explains things much better than I can...

Here in Alton we have two school districts, as our elementary school (grades pre-K through 8) and high school are considered different SAU's. The teachers' contracts in both districts came up to vote yesterday and failed. There was a 0% increase for the first year of the elementary school contract, a 1% increase for the second year, and a 2% increase for the third year. There were some changes to benefits and insurance but I felt that the contracts were very conservative considering the times we're living in. I think some folks felt that a three year contract was expansive, as we don't know what's to come in three years...

However, if a teachers' contract fails there's an 'evergreen clause' law now in NH which means that the contracts stay status quo from the previous year. Not sure if you were aware of that or not...

If there's anything I like seeing from this economy is that people are paying attention to what's going on in their towns and they're getting involved. We had a good turn out at the polls yesterday with just over 25% of the registered voters coming to the polls. I'd like to see this level of interest in the local economy when we're back to being 'fat and happy' again...

03-10-2010, 06:51 PM	#70
Argie's Wife Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Alton Posts: 1,908 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 533 Thanked 579 Times in 260 Posts	I mean this sincerely (not being a joker or smartypants here...) but did you read the link I gave you? It does a good job of explaining why M'boro's teachers seem to get paid more. The same website where I got that link from also has the recommendations of the budget committee and the teachers' association. It explains things much better than I can... Here in Alton we have two school districts, as our elementary school (grades pre-K through 8) and high school are considered different SAU's. The teachers' contracts in both districts came up to vote yesterday and failed. There was a 0% increase for the first year of the elementary school contract, a 1% increase for the second year, and a 2% increase for the third year. There were some changes to benefits and insurance but I felt that the contracts were very conservative considering the times we're living in. I think some folks felt that a three year contract was expansive, as we don't know what's to come in three years... However, if a teachers' contract fails there's an 'evergreen clause' law now in NH which means that the contracts stay status quo from the previous year. Not sure if you were aware of that or not... If there's anything I like seeing from this economy is that people are paying attention to what's going on in their towns and they're getting involved. We had a good turn out at the polls yesterday with just over 25% of the registered voters coming to the polls. I'd like to see this level of interest in the local economy when we're back to being 'fat and happy' again...