..if you can’t tolerate mistakes.
I’ve just learned that I was off the mark in this unhappy post this morning.
The News Tribune’s headline was right to say we had a 2% pay raise for teachers this year. Thank heavens. I’ll be a little more likely to vote for for the contract now despite the budgetary ignorance I’ve been forced to endure since joining the Board.
The novel twist is this. Apparently the District will pay our teachers a full three percent raise on just the three new days our teachers will add to their calendar. They will not get this three percent on the other days but only on the three additional days placed in the contract. This is so unexpected I incorrectly deduced that the extra 1 percent was a raise of a full year’s salary.
This will still leave us with a $9.6 million deficit to deal with in a few years but it doesn’t sound like it will be much worse, certainly not the additional two million cost I predicted in the Happy Happy Happy post. Hallelujah!
And to those who were stung by my reporting of misinformation, I apologize. See, That wasn’t so hard to do!
