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As I understand from the coffee shop gossip, our teachers were without a new contract when the school year began in September. They were united and prevailed with a unique 1-2-3-4% agreement with our School Committee - 10% raise over 4 years including this year. My question: Does their 1% increase get paid retroactive to last September or did it start this month? If it started this month, will they get actually more than 1% added to their paychecks beginning this month to overcome nothing new in their checks dating back to last September or retroactive payment and then 1% from this month through end of this school year? Is it true this contract agreement will not and does not have to appear before Town Meeting in May to be approved by Town Meeting if the School Committee can find the funds to fully fund this first year raise?
Thank you.
By Taxpayer Tom
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Teacher Contract
I believe the 1% is retroactive to 9/1 and the contract itself is not subjet to funding therefore no vote of Town Meeting is needed. All Town meeting can do is reduce the bottom line total of the School budget and thye can choose to make the cuts where they want. Interesting - only budget that need not be approved and can not be amended by line item.
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Teacher Contract question
according to the ledgers article
they will seek $150,000 from TM to fund the remainder of their self approved contract with them selves.
For 2005 they want $982,500 additional just to keep up? they forecast $552.474 increase in teachers salaries and another $431,028 in step increases?
Plus some odd change to make this years jackpot for the teachers over
One million and rising soon.
before the contract is seen by anyone else they will start paying the increases from monies they have squirreled away at school committee headquarters. They must have approved it, the contract, them selves.
By a curious mind wants to know
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Where the Money Comes From
The money to fund the 1% raise is coming from three sources: one is the school departments share of the extra $240,000 in state aid given to Braintree last year, which town meeting tucked away for contracts. That's the $150,000 that we've been reading about in the papers that the SC will ask for at TM. The other two sources were also funds from the state in aid specificically for schools. This is what the papers reported anyway.
It's amazing that most contracts in the past in this town give average raises of three %, but this contract gives 1-2-3-4 over 4 years, an average of 2.5% with less up front when times are still tough, and people are going wild on this web site. Meanwhile BELD is giving out bonuses and 4% raises and there's hardly been a peep. Wasn't it only a year or two ago that the schools cut four million dollars off their level budget?
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