With recent discussion and newspaper articles talking of Templeton, MA being under effort in support of the school district, I find it interesting that the Narragansett Regional school district shows the highest average teacher salaries in the immediate area; if you look at the report on the web site of DESE (department of secondary elementary education, you find NRHS at $76,742.00, Gardner at $69,195.00, Winchendon at $71,029.00, Athol-Royalston at $65,972.00 and Ashburnham-Westminster at $70,190.00. Templeton voters/taxpayers also voted to appropriate (make available) 47 million dollars towards the building of a new elementary school. The other town in the two town school district opted to not support this effort. Templeton residents, you are not under effort in supporting your school (s), in fact, you are providing more funding than even the DESE mandates and have been doing so for a number of years.
Time for that myth to be put to rest.
Seems there are two different places to look for comparison on Teacher Salaries:
Link #1 --- www.doe.mass.edu/finance/statistics/
Link #1 divides by 91 teachers and is for FY17.
Link #2 divides by 102 teachers for FY16;
yielding two different averages, $ 76,742.00 and $ 67,147.00.
So depending on which one you look at or use, you can present a different dollar figure, one high and one lower. The question becomes which one to use in presentation, are the figures correct, with regards to the number of teachers? I try very hard to present correct information, so if you read this and go check, you will be aware of the variation.
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