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Title: Increases Teacher Salaries

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and adopt a resolution that increases teacher salaries.

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  • Appropriates $50,000,000 to the Executive Budget Office to provide teacher step increases, including fringe, for the 2020-2021 School Year. The funds must be held in a separate account and disbursed to school districts. Any funds remaining in the account after June 30, 2021, must be remitted to the Contingency Reserve Fund (Sec. 1.A).

  • Requires the Department of Education to distribute the funds to each school district in an amount, determined by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office, equal to the increased cost of salaries to the school district, including fringe, due to the step increase in the state minimum salary schedule (Sec. 1.B-1).

  • Requires the Department of Education to provide the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office the number of full-time equivalent state-funded positions that were eligible for the step increase in School Years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 that each district has in each cell of the state minimum teacher salary (Sec. 1-2).

  • Requires the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office to determine the actual increased cost of the step increase, including fringe, in the state minimum salary schedule by determining the increase in the number of total salaries of such positions in School Year 2020-2021 when compared to School Year 2019-2020 due to the change in the salaries of eligible positions for the step increase that are in the same school district in School Year 2020-2021 as they were in School Year 2019-2020 due to moving up one year of experience on the state minimum salary schedule (Sec. 1-3).

  • Specifies for each position that is eligible for the step increase for the 2020-2021 School Year, each school district will provide a one-time lump sum payment of the entire step increase due to the employee, including any amounts in arrears, by June 15, 2021, or the school district may utilize its current payroll system to pay the step increase as long as the first payment retroactively includes all previous payments that would have been due to the eligible employee (Sec. 1-3.C).

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