Posted on 06/17/2011 9:55:04 AM PDT by MichCapCon
At the Farmington Public Schools, the teachers’ union came up with a concession last school year: Teachers that hit their 10th year of employment took only half of their union contract’s scheduled $16,000 to $20,000 automatic annual pay raises at the start of the year. But unless a new deal is negotiated, those teachers will get the rest of their 22 percent increases this August when another school year begins, a school administrator said.
The 10th-year step increase raises are part of the teachers’ contract. Teachers with 10 years in the district and a master’s degree were scheduled to have their salary jump from $69,583 to $85,945. Other teachers that work with impaired students and have a master’s degree were scheduled to see their salary go up from $84,547 to $104,428. Instead, the full impact of the raise was delayed a year.
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Then those same teachers should recieve a good old fashioned shunning from their neighbors.
Try telling your boss in the Dreaded Private Sector that “you’re not feeling valued” and see what happens.
A hundred grand to do a job that home schooling has shown us can be done better by just about any parent with a high school education. (for free). This lunacy can’t last - there will be blood.
My husband has be teaching for 20 years and he doesn’t make even close to $69,583. I can’t imagine that his salary will ever get that high.
Districts like this make me mad because it makes all teachers look over paid, even when they work in a fiscally responsible district.
Aren’t unions great? What would we do without them......besides perform the jobs the public expects? I’d bet the high school graduation rate is around 49%....if we’re lucky.
What is wrong with you people?!?!
This is for the chill’rens! Have you no shame or since of decencies? Muss I die? Muss my chill’ren die?
The average teachers’ salary in 2009-10 at Farmington was $76,086, which is 16th highest in the state and a 4.5 percent increase from 2008-09.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/15239
“Our teachers are feeling like they are not valued anymore,” Zurvalec said. “When teachers don’t feel valued, people don’t want to go into education and become great teachers.
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BS!
I don’t “feel” valued either and we own our own business!
I guarantee if it wasn’t for the money they wouldn’t be there. It is not about teaching (at least not for most these days).
like I say....why should anyone go to medical school and actually work long hours with the sick and dying when you can go be a teacher, never get fired or have to carry liability, have over half the year off, and pretend that you’re the greatest person in the world....
Regardless of shutdown, state funds continue going to public schools
A shutdown may delay in payments to schools. Jeff Solomon, ISD 196 Director of Finance and Operations explained that “Our district’s estimated state aid payments for July 15th is $7,774,219. However we are also anticipating approximately another $1,220,000 on July 13th and 14th. Our total anticipated mid July payments are approximately $9,000,000.” Jane Houska, Fiscal Operations Manager for Farmington Area Schools told me that the district expected to receive approximately $1.8 million in state aid payments on July 15. Michelle Vargas, Chief Financial Officer of Anoka-Hennepin ISD #11, the state’s largest district, reported that the district anticipates a payment of $13.6 million on July 15. Statewide, Briner of MDE estimated that school districts normally would be paid about $296 million.
Jamie Steckart of Northwest Passage in Coon Rapids wrote, “All of our employees are on 10 month contracts but have their pay spread out over 12 months. The July 15th payments is money they have already earned and is money the state has promised us. If they want to stop payments to schools then I suggest that they issue the schools the money owed from last year so we can meet past obligations. Currently the state owes our school close to $500,000 from last year’s revenue.
“State aid payments to schools have not been deemed a “priority 1 or 2 critical service” or those which effect life or safety. Ultimately, it is up to the Court to make the final determination on critical services.”
Briner wrote that Gov. Dayton wants a compromise, not a shutdown.
If they worked 12 months a year instead of 9 months a year, that would be around $101,000 a year, plus benefits. That’s an amazing salary for anyone. Wonder what the cost is if you add in all their benefits?
They did such a great job during the school year that nearly half will be going to summer school...
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More districts put emphasis on summer school
Detroit Public Schools begins its six-week Summer School Academy on June 21. In Troy, summer school opens June 23 for high school students and June 27 for those in elementary and middle school. In Warren, the district is offering two three-week sessions for middle and high school students, starting June 27 and July 18.
While studying instead of sunning may sound dreary, summer school is becoming more the norm around Metro Detroit. Students are heading back to the classroom to avoid losing academic ground and get a leg up on their peers in the fall.
Budgets are tight everywhere, but school officials said summer programs would be among the last things cut from their districts, considering the advantages it gives students in today’s competitive academic world.
Detroit Public Schools expects to serve more than 35,840 students — nearly half of its enrollment — this summer.
The DPS academy includes special programs for pre-kindergartners through incoming 12th-graders, bilingual students and extended-year school for special education students. More than 30,000 students are already enrolled. There is no cost to Title I-eligible district students.
June 7, 2011
Members of the Farmington Education Association (FEA) are participating in today’s statewide Day of Action, but in a low-key way.
While teachers in other districts have organized pickets outside schools to protest pending state budget cuts and changes to tenure and collective bargaining for teachers, Farmington teachers union members planned informal social gatherings before and after school today, FEA president Dave Workman said.
The Day of Action has been organized by the Michigan Education Association (MEA) in response to efforts by Gov. Rick Snyder to trim spending on K-12 education and what the MEA describes as “attacks on school employees and the middle class.”
Union members in districts across the state are forming “crisis response teams” to respond to legislation under consideration in Lansing. In Birmingham today, for instance, teachers have organized informational pickets this afternoon outside schools. Workman said trying to get people out all around the community is “challenging” with so much going on in the buildings this time of year.
“The end of the school year is here, and Lansing politicians plan to spend the next few weeks working on legislation that will impact your students and your job,” reads a notice on the MEA website. “The Legislature and Gov. Rick Snyder are counting on your silence over the next few weeks so they can vote on unpopular measures, including bills to dismantle tenure and collective bargaining. We need to let our elected leaders know that we will hold them accountable.”
http://farmington-mi.patch.com/articles/farmington-takes-low-key-approach-to-day-of-action
Shhhhh, wallets don’t talk. /sarc
funny... for the most part, i don’t value them i the least
actually, i see them as detrimental to our country... every time people cannot do basic math (adding and subtracted is now considered advanced math, and don’t even bother talking percentages)
Farmington and Farmington Hills used to be a great place to raise a family....back in the 60’s and 70’s. I can remember when the Founder’s Festival wasn’t so commercialized.
Well one thing, I'm starting to feel about some teachers the same way I do about some lawyers.
“$69,583 to $85,945”
If you compare their operating pattern to a fully annualized career, that would be an increase from $104,375 to $127,418. The average American family income is somewhere around $45K.
Just to offer some perspective.
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