Echo High School - Echoes Yearbook (Echo, OR)

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( } FACULTY Echo Teachers Sign Contracts Superintendent Center Also Rehired By School ECHC. Feb. 13. Supt. Warren Center and tho entire Echo schools' teaching staff have sign od 1947 48 contracts at salary increases, Joe Middleton, sch-'jc! hoard chairman, announced today. Mi. Center resigned Saturday effective July 1 and Monday the teachers also quit “Recent reports of dissension between the faculty and the school board are erroneous, Mr. Middleton declared. The board of directors, Mr. Center and the staff have been, and an- now. in full accord. ' He said the board yesterday also decided to hire an addition al teacher next year and put first graders in one room to re lieve congestion in other rooms He said the board also hoper to provide a lunch rocm and in augurate a hot lunch program next year. Salary Increases mantl'd under the new contracts were in line with pioposals of the Uma tilla County Schoolmasters’ club, Middleton said. W. E. King of Pendleton, county superintendent and schoolmasters’ secretary, said thos mum salary. $2600 minimum foi normal school graduate and $36000 minimum for teachers with masters degrees and five years experience. He said raises would avc rag about 20 per cent.