The Chadron School Board Monday night unanimously approved a new 2-year contract with the Chadron Teachers Association that starts with this coming fall’s school year.

Under the agreement, the district’s base salary will be $31,700…up $600 from the current year, when teachers received a $700 base salary increase.

School Board President Sandy Roes is pleased by both the agreement and the cooperation shown by the teachers and the district’s negotiators in reaching it. She also says it’s important because it gives the district  some early certainty in the budgeting process.

Roes says the $600 increase in the base salary is the average among the 11 districts in the state’s “array” for the Chadron Public Schools…a group of similar sized districts used for comparison purposes.

The new agreement also increases the employee health insurance deductible from $700 to $950, clarifies minor points in contract language, and makes minor adjustments in the extra-duty schedule for coaches and advisors.

Board members discovered just before voting on the agreement that a planned reduction in payment options for extra-duty pay had accidentally been overlooked, but decided the issue was too small not to go ahead and approve the contract.