As you probably heard (Monday) night at the School Board meeting, one of our priorities is getting the salary compression fixed for our veteran teachers. Another priority is working with the district to change our schedules and workloads. Our handbook and language hasn’t been changed in decades. Yet our schools and what’s happening in our schools has changed so much, so we need to work with them to change it so that it’s best for our students and our staff.
What is the extent of the salary compression issue?
Madison has always been a great location where everybody’s wanted to come and teach. But since Act 10 (in 2011), there’s been a teaching crisis of having enough staff. So we were very happy that over the years, the district has chosen to pay new educators more money and a living wage. But with doing so, they chopped off levels on the salary scale and didn’t compensate and move the rest of their veteran teachers accordingly.
What has happened is new staff is coming in and being hired, that they’re getting placed in higher salaries than our current veteran staff. The district fixed it last year for a certain subset of groups, our student service staff — they had a double compression — and they’ve talked about fixing it in the future for the rest of us.
We’re very hopeful and optimistic that they’re going to respect and honor loyal teachers sticking with the district, and that they will fix the compression for the rest of us with how they hire in HR now. Retaining staff is a big issue, and this will be a big thing for them to do to continue to retain.
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