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February 23, 2010
Steps Don't Just Go UP
Marc Comtois
Reading a couple different articles (and the comments) prompted me to go looking for the Rhode Island statute that required teacher steps. Here it is (16-7-29):
§ 16-7-29 Minimum salary schedule established by community. – (a) Every community shall establish and put into full effect by appropriate action of its school committee a salary schedule recognizing years of service, experience, and training for all certified personnel regularly employed in the public schools and having no more than twelve (12) annual steps. The term "school year" as applied to the salary schedule means the ten (10) calendar months beginning in September and ending the following June.Part (b) is pretty interesting, no? So, while steps are indeed required, they can be "level funded" or reduced. All the law really asks is that a predictable schedule be in place. Seems like school committees could take a variety of innovative approaches to redesigning the schedules such that cost savings could be built into the schedule.(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a freeze or reduction of the monetary value of the steps in the salary schedule through the collective bargaining process. (emphasis mine)
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"Nothing in this section shall prohibit a freeze or reduction of the monetary value of the steps in the salary schedule through the collective bargaining process."
Horrors ...
Posted by: Monique at February 23, 2010 6:08 PMI think they got the idea from these guys.
http://www.opm.gov/feddata/html/paystructure/2004/table4.asp
Posted by: John at February 23, 2010 6:17 PMJustin, didn't this stuff come up in the East Providence negotiations or in Tiverton?
Posted by: Roland at February 23, 2010 11:59 PM