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Parent urges Bedford supervisors to boost teacher and paraprofessional pay to stop turnover
Summary
At the board’s citizen comment period, Avan Alford, a Bedford County parent with a child in special education, urged supervisors to increase teacher starting salaries and paraprofessional wages to retain staff, comparing Bedford’s pay and funding levels with neighboring counties and citing low retention rates among paraprofessionals.
Avan Alford, a Bedford County resident and parent of a child in special education, used the citizen comment period to urge the Board of Supervisors to make competitive teacher and paraprofessional pay a budget priority.
Alford said Bedford’s average starting teacher salary is “around 44,000,” and contrasted that with neighboring localities he cited as higher — Roanoke “closer to 50,” Botetourt and Rockbridge “around 48 to 49,” and Campbell County…
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