Tribune Editorial: Better paid teachers will drive rural Utah’s prosperity

These are heady times for brand new teachers in Utah. Twenty-two-year-olds fresh from college are getting offers with starting salaries around $50,000 a year.If they’re between Ogden and Provo.If they’re in Piute or Wayne counties, they would be lucky to get $1,000 a month less than that. In fact, some rural Utah school districts have average salaries below what the big districts are now paying the rookies.According to the Utah Foundation, rural teachers make up to 40 percent less th