Sarah Hollett This is Me

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1. 1. www.veaweteach.org

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   Published on: 3/6/2007   Last Visited: 3/13/2007

   Over the years, Roanoke County Education Association President Sarah Hollett has heard plenty of reasons the school division can't raise teacher salaries to better compete with surrounding localities.
   
   Then she looks at some of the things the county is paying for and it gets her riled up. Upwards of two million dollars to resurface school parking lots. Eight hundred thousand dollars for Astroturf at a high school.
   
   All while the school division keeps salaries for teachers at step 20 frozen for the third year in a row at $45,000. It now takes teachers in Roanoke County 20 years to advance from an entry salary of $34,000 to $45,000.
   
   "We are losing teachers each year not from retirement, but because they don't want to teach for the amount of money they're earning," says Hollett, in what has become a common refrain from Tidewater to southwest Virginia to the northern suburbs.

2. 2. Roanoke Co. OKs school camera pilot program - Roanoke.com

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   Published on: 8/17/2006   Last Visited: 8/17/2006

   "We think it's a very positive thing for the board to address this," said Sarah Hollett, president of the Roanoke County Education Association and a special education teacher at Clearbrook Elementary.
   
   "That, to me, is just being proactive."

3. 3. News from The Roanoke Times-'Need to move forward,' says Lange of schools

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   Published on: 3/31/2006   Last Visited: 3/31/2006

   "She's been with the county for many, many years in many different capacities," said Sarah Hollett, president of the RCEA.