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Grand Island teacher contract approved
By Tracy Overstreet
tracy.overstreet@theindependent.com
Published: Monday, September 26, 2011 4:10 PM CDT
Grand Island Public Schools and its teachers have a new contract.
The two-year agreement was approved by the 750-member Grand Island Education Association last week and ratified unanimously by the nine-member Grand Island School board during a 7:30 a.m. meeting this morning.
It gives just a $100 wage increase on the base salary for each teacher but still allows for horizontal movement on the wage scale, which occurs when teachers have advanced their own education; and vertical movement, which accounts for the years of service in the district.
With those three factors accounted for, the new labor contract translates into a 2.16 percent wage increase for this 2011-12 academic year and a 2.1 percent increase for 2012-13, said Virgil Harden, the school's business manager.
Classified staff, comprising about 600 school employees such as paraeducators, custodians and food staff, will receive a 2.16 percent wage increase based on their current salary. In their separate one-year agreement, classified staff will stay at their current pay steps for 2011-12 and not have any other movement than the 2.16 percent increase, Harden said.
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