A point that was made repeatedly at the public hearing on Buena Vista’s budget held earlier this month is that the city’s starting teachers are vastly underpaid in comparison with their counterparts in neighboring jurisdictions. First-year teachers in Buena Vista earn about $8,000 less than first-year teachers in Rockbridge County. In fact, beginning teachers in Buena Vista are paid less than first-year teachers in any of Virginia’s other 131 public school divisions.
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