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3 percent pay raise proposed for teachersA union representing Baltimore County teachers ha negotiated a 3 percent pay raise with the Board of Education.Ed Veit, president of the 5,700-member Teachers Association of Baltimore County, said he was disappointed over the outcome. "We are cognizant of what's going on with the economy," he said. "But things have gone well in Baltimore County compared to some of the other counties."The tentative agreement, reached Tuesday, also calls for salary restructuring for veteran teachers.

Over the objections of the superintendent of schools, Robert Y. Dubel, the Baltimore County Board of Education has put off approving contracts negotiated with teachers and other employees while it looks for ways to trim the education budget.The board voted 7-1 late Thursday to table the contracts with the Teachers Association of Baltimore County and the Baltimore County Aides and Clerical Workers. No one could remember a similar board action in the past.Rosalie Hellman, board president, said the members wanted to take more time to study the contracts as it looked at ways to cut the proposed $518.

Chanting "These Cuts Won't Heal" and "Where's Roger?" a boisterous crowd of about 1,000 Baltimore County workers, parents and children rallied in Towson late yesterday to protest the latest round of local budget cuts.Most of the demonstrators who gathered in the plaza between the old and new county courthouses were teachers and PTA members, although a large contingent of firefighters and smaller groups of police and other county workers also attended.County Executive Roger B. Hayden was in Annapolis for the day and not within earshot of the taunts aimed at him, but other top county administration officials watched the rally from office windows overlooking the plaza.

At least 50 teachers crowded into the Baltimore County school board meeting last night to again demonstrate their unhappiness over budget cuts, lack of pay raises, furlough days and the prospect of more crowded classrooms."

Baltimore County school employees will get back the mone taken from their paychecks to balance this year's school budget, school officials said yesterday.Teachers will get one day's pay, and clerical workers and teachers' aides will receive about two-thirds of a day's pay.During an unusual afternoon meeting, the school board approved the salary rebate, which teachers will receive in an extra check, perhaps as early as June 18. The money is available "due to diligent oversight and cost-cutting measures" resulting from "hard decisions," Superintendent Stuart Berger told the board.

Baltimore County school board members voted unanimously last night to turn one of their twice-monthly meetings into a work session. Another proposed policy change - which would limit the number of groups given time to address members during meetings - was pulled from yesterday's agenda. Board members Earnest E. Hines and newly appointed James E. Coleman were not present for the vote. Several people, who expressed concern about the tabled policy change, lauded the board for pulling the item.

The Baltimore County teachers' union rallied at the Board of Education headquarters in Towson yesterday to protest mandatory furlough days that Superintendent Robert Y. Dubel imposed last week.With signs saying, "Furloughs, the most unfair of taxes" and "These cuts won't heal," about 150 educators stood outside the board offices on Charles Street as evening rush-hour traffic breezed past.The teachers were upset over Dr. Dubel's plan to impose the furlough days during time the teachers would normally be working in school without students.

Baltimore County officials announced plans today to expand the public school system's kindergarten program in 32 schools and proposed an alternative middle school program that will keep expelled students in classes during regular school hours.Both plans would require adding new teachers.About 2,000 of the county's projected 7,000 kindergarten students will receive all-day instruction, part of new school Superintendent Stuart Berger's plan to improve early childhood education during the 1992-93 school year.

Wanted: a school superintendent who looks to the future, understands budgets and high technology, communicates well with politicians, the public and school employees, and is sensitive to the changing demographics of Baltimore County. Teaching experience preferred.That would be the classified advertisement for Baltimore County's new school superintendent if it were written by some of the 40-odd interest groups and citizens the school district has polled about the kind of person they want for the job.The school board, which is running its own want ad in major newspapers, hopes to announce on March 1 its replacement for Robert Y. Dubel, who will retire July 1 after 16 years on the job.Some of the people school officials consulted were willing to talk with a reporter about the qualities they want in the person who will head the 90,000-student district.

The Baltimore County teachers' union rallied yesterday at Board of Education headquarters in Towson to protest mandatory furlough days that Superintendent Robert Y. Dubel imposed last week.With signs saying, "Furloughs, the most unfair of taxes" and "These cuts won't heal," about 150 educators stood outside the board offices on Charles Street yesterday as evening rush-hour traffic breezed past.The teachers were upset over Dr. Dubel's plan to impose the furlough days during time the teachers would normally be working in school without students.