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Teachers, GIPS agree on new pact
By Tracy Overstreet
tracy.overstreet@theindependent.com
Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:19 AM 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 meeting at 7:30 a.m. Monday.
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 the 2011-12 academic year and a 2.1 percent increase for 2012-13, said Virgil Harden, the school district’s business manager.
Deb Gnuse, representative of the Grand Island Education Association, said for those teachers who don’t have a change in education level (which advances for every nine college credit hours) or years of service (which advances the first six years of service), the $100 base-pay increase “will not quite cover the increase in the retirement” contribution, which will change for teachers in January.
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