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Teachers ask board to raise middle-school theater stipends; union leader cites bus-driver pay and First Amendment protections
Summary
At public comment, a middle-school theater teacher urged higher stipends for theater work; a union leader urged the board to protect employees' First Amendment rights and raised bus-driver overtime and morale concerns.
During public comment at the Williamsburg-James City County School Board meeting, Berkeley Middle School theater teacher Hannah Booth urged the board to increase middle-school theater stipends and to value arts staffing comparably to athletics. Booth said she receives one annual theater stipend of $1,131 and described roughly 250 hours of out-of-contract work across productions; she calculated that the spring musical alone…
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