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Take Action: Policies that pit teacher against teacher will only worsen the shortage
01/16/2016

 

Oppose%20SB%2010%20-%20FB.pngSB 10 (Sen. Jeff Raatz, R – Centerville) in its original form would have allowed teachers with fewer than 10 years of teaching experience to factor up to 58 percent of the calculation to determine a teacher’s salary increase or increment. For teachers with at least 10 years of experience, it would become 33 and one-third percent. The bill would have decoupled experience from educational attainment providing an additional factor for salaries. ISTA supported the original bill.

 

However, a significant amendment Sen. Raatz authored, and education reform groups supported, turns SB 10 into an entirely new bill. Administrators could choose to pay certain teachers more “to attract and retain a teacher as needed.” 

 

SB 10 further makes clear that these supplemental payments are not bargainable by a local teacher association.

 

Worse, the bill mandates that up to 50 percent of the supplemental payment must go into the future base pay of the teacher—taking even more money off the table for compensation packages for all teachers. Incredibly, this is the new answer offered by some to address Indiana’s teacher shortage.

 

Indiana has a long history of bargaining and with very few exceptions, the process works and engages both administrators and teachers. 

 

These policies are fueled by an anti-union political agenda and feed into the cynicism and demoralization of school employees everywhere.

 

Tell legislators to vote no to SB 10.

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