Archive: November 2006

Intersession and Summer School Pay
By Steve Kaplan, UniServe Field Organizer

SDEA and the District signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on June 20, 2006. The School Board approved the MOU on July 11, 2006. The primary change within the MOU is SDEA unit members will receive additional salary for teaching during Intersession and Summer School.

Under the previous contract language, the prorata rate of pay was based on the salary schedule and your placement (step and column) on that schedule on June 30. For example:

A teacher placed at Column C / Step 7 on June 30, 2006 who teaches Intersession during the current year would be paid based on that placement and at the salary rate in place on June 30, 2006.

Under the new language established by the MOU, the prorata rate of pay will be based on your current placement on the current salary schedule. For example:

The same teacher will have moved to Column C / Step 8 and the Intersession pay will be based on that placement plus the 5.78% salary increase will be used in calculating the prorata rate of pay.

The total impact of the change will result in that teacher for this year receiving an Intersession salary about 8% higher than they would have received under the old language.

The same concepts apply for Summer School teachers who received the benefit of step and column changes plus bargained salary increases starting July 1 of this year.

Sick leave will now be charged at five hours per day. Under the old language it was charged at four hours per day.