Teachers at Great Bend USD 428 will receive a minimum pay raise of $1,700 for the 2018-2019 school year, Superintendent Khris Thexton said after Monday’s school board meeting. The base pay for a starting teacher will increase from $36,400 to $37,700. Pay of teachers as a whole will increase by 5 percent, but that isn’t an across-the-board raise; some will receive more and some will receive less.“Everybody will get horizontal and vertical movement,” Thexton said of the teachers’ placement on the district salary grid.Teachers’ cost for insurance will stay the same, as will the number of hours teachers are required to work.The board approved the 2018-2019 teachers’ contract without comment as part of the consent agenda, along with minutes of April meetings, the personnel report, bills and financial reports, a pay adjustment for classified employees, and administrative contracts.During the meeting, the board held a 20-minute executive session to discuss “the latest proposal for ratification of (the) negotiated agreement.”