The Nation - News from July 24, 1988

A tentative contract would pay top teachers $64,000 a year in Dade County (Miami), Fla. The three-year contract, which the teachers’ union and school board must still approve, raises salaries 28% with average pay for the new academic year at $33,066. To earn the $64,000, a teacher would need 14 years of experience and a doctorate and be willing to teach summer school. Dade’s school system, with 15,000 teachers and 255,000 students in 260 schools, is the nation’s fourth-biggest behind New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.