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I ^age 4AThe Battalion/Thursday, July 14, 1983 Texas teachers group submits merit pay plan United Press International AUSTIN — By receiving an across-the-board pay raise and earning extra money for work ing a little harder, Texas school teachers could make as much as $40,000 a year under a plan de signed by a teachers union. But the incentive salary plan unveiled Tuesday by the Texas Federation of Teachers would cost taxpayers at least $ 1 billion a year in higher taxes. TFT president John Cole said the “model” plan — dubbed “Project QuEST” — has been presented to an 18-member select education committee that opened public hearings Wednesday in Austin. The larger Texas State percent. The TFT Teachers Association will ex plain its proposals for reforms in public education Thursday. In addition to a salary sche dule pegged on a 24 percent pay hike, the TFT plan would also stiffen teacher certification re quirements, change school gov ernance, set up an in-house eva luation program and give teachers collective bargaining rights. But Cole said that before merit pay is considered, all Texas teachers should receive a proposals, I opportu he said, “offer a real opportunity for teachers to be rewarded for per formance above and beyond the call of duty; but also protects the public against phony merit pay schemes which do not reward merit.” Under the TFT plan, teachers could add to their base salaries through an incentive program that would add from 5 percent to 55 percent through additional education and other extra work. one-time pay boost of at least 24 Archie’s Taco Bell is now accepting Applications for Employment at all three locations. Apply at Archie’s two current locations: 3901 S. Texas Ave., Biyan 310 N. Harvey Rd. College Station OPENING SOON: 920 S. Texas, Biyan %^ir s IHCOi&iBEIilf Teachers could earn addi tional pay for teaching summer school, sponsoring school clubs and field trips, attending PTA and open house meetings and in-service workshops and serv ing on textbook committees. Cole suggested the money could be raised by increasing oil and gas severance taxes or through a “sin” tax plan sug gested earlier by Gov. Mark White. As an example of the TFT pay plan, a teacher with an M.A. degree and 10 years experience now earns $ 18,140 a year in state base pay. But the same teacher could make $36,047 by receiving a a 24 percent hike, obtaining a master teacher certificate, sponsoring a math club, serving on a profes sional support team, attending all PTA meetings, visiting pa rents at home and teaching sum mer school. SKI INVENTORY REDUCTION ■ O’BRIEN 1 1 XNTEXUSCAXXONAX. 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Andy Czimskey said getting the money was no problem for the city. “We met the criterion being used by the Parks 8c Wildlife De partment such as preliminary planning, matching funds in the bank and making the deadlines imposed,” he said. Czimskey said work began on the Southwood Athletic Park, the project being funded through the grant, more than two months ago. Paving of the streets and instajlation of water and sewer lines in the park will soon be complete. Baseball and soccer fields, the primary attrac tions of the park, will belli by the end of August Czimskey. “We plan on adding a ming pool, tennis courts, que pavilion, and com building in the fall,” he The use of the funds struction of the projected is overseen by the Texas’ Wildlife Department, Hogsett, a grant admini with the agency. 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