what is going to happen to teachers' salaries next year?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the County did agreements with police and firefighters that were connected to reality and available funds. FCPS entered into an agreement that didn’t remotely take available money into account. It’s such a failure on Reid’s part. She has screwed up two budgets and one collective bargaining so far. Not to mention all the other scandals like Hayfield.

Meanwhile the schools are getting another big increase in the transfer from the county this year. I really hope they use it to target raises to teachers and other student-facing jobs, not every employee like Reid put in her budget.

Got it, ten percent for firefighters and police is reality, but 7% for teachers isn't.

Yes- there are many fewer firefighters and police than teachers so the cost is much lower. Plus their vacancy rates were super high. The county didn’t give all of its employees a huge raise- they tailored it to the needs based on vacancies. Fcps wanted to give a 7% raise to every one of its employees! Not connected to vacancy rates or even market pay. They cut nothing from their budget. The county gave them $118 million more than last year even though enrollment is flat. Fcps should cut things they don’t need, including the five extra chiefs making $250K that Reid has added and focus raises on positions that need them based on data.

The raises are connected to market pay. Depending on how many years of experience teachers have, they can make a lot better pay at a surrounding county, and depending on the county, the cost of living is lower too.

That argument addresses teachers. FCPS wanted to give a 7% raise to every single FCPS employee, not just teachers.

Okay, HR, Finance, IT, etc could also leave and make better pay in a surrounding county, or go private. And, depending on location, they could have a lower cost of living.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the County did agreements with police and firefighters that were connected to reality and available funds. FCPS entered into an agreement that didn’t remotely take available money into account. It’s such a failure on Reid’s part. She has screwed up two budgets and one collective bargaining so far. Not to mention all the other scandals like Hayfield.

Meanwhile the schools are getting another big increase in the transfer from the county this year. I really hope they use it to target raises to teachers and other student-facing jobs, not every employee like Reid put in her budget.

Got it, ten percent for firefighters and police is reality, but 7% for teachers isn't.

Yes- there are many fewer firefighters and police than teachers so the cost is much lower. Plus their vacancy rates were super high. The county didn’t give all of its employees a huge raise- they tailored it to the needs based on vacancies. Fcps wanted to give a 7% raise to every one of its employees! Not connected to vacancy rates or even market pay. They cut nothing from their budget. The county gave them $118 million more than last year even though enrollment is flat. Fcps should cut things they don’t need, including the five extra chiefs making $250K that Reid has added and focus raises on positions that need them based on data.

The raises are connected to market pay. Depending on how many years of experience teachers have, they can make a lot better pay at a surrounding county, and depending on the county, the cost of living is lower too.

That argument addresses teachers. FCPS wanted to give a 7% raise to every single FCPS employee, not just teachers.

Okay, HR, Finance, IT, etc could also leave and make better pay in a surrounding county, or go private. And, depending on location, they could have a lower cost of living.

The fact that they haven’t already is telling lol - FCPS could stand for some of Gatehouse to depart

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Police and Fire get ten percent in Fairfax because they are men. Teachers in Fairfax won't get seven percent due to primarily being women working in Liberal Fairfax County. The Union is a complete joke and will not stand up to a Liberal Board of Supervisors or School Board. Unions are just a bad joke. They are useless.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the County did agreements with police and firefighters that were connected to reality and available funds. FCPS entered into an agreement that didn’t remotely take available money into account. It’s such a failure on Reid’s part. She has screwed up two budgets and one collective bargaining so far. Not to mention all the other scandals like Hayfield.

Meanwhile the schools are getting another big increase in the transfer from the county this year. I really hope they use it to target raises to teachers and other student-facing jobs, not every employee like Reid put in her budget.

Got it, ten percent for firefighters and police is reality, but 7% for teachers isn't.

Yes- there are many fewer firefighters and police than teachers so the cost is much lower. Plus their vacancy rates were super high. The county didn’t give all of its employees a huge raise- they tailored it to the needs based on vacancies. Fcps wanted to give a 7% raise to every one of its employees! Not connected to vacancy rates or even market pay. They cut nothing from their budget. The county gave them $118 million more than last year even though enrollment is flat. Fcps should cut things they don’t need, including the five extra chiefs making $250K that Reid has added and focus raises on positions that need them based on data.

The raises are connected to market pay. Depending on how many years of experience teachers have, they can make a lot better pay at a surrounding county, and depending on the county, the cost of living is lower too.

That argument addresses teachers. FCPS wanted to give a 7% raise to every single FCPS employee, not just teachers.

Okay, HR, Finance, IT, etc could also leave and make better pay in a surrounding county, or go private. And, depending on location, they could have a lower cost of living.

Share some evidence of that. Because fcps hasn’t done any market based studies for any positions other than copying the WABE guide for one class of teachers. The county does market studies each year. Fcps has done nothing to justify its ridiculous ask.

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Can’t they just raise property taxes another 10 percent to cover those raises?

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Anonymous wrote:Police and Fire get ten percent in Fairfax because they are men. Teachers in Fairfax won't get seven percent due to primarily being women working in Liberal Fairfax County. The Union is a complete joke and will not stand up to a Liberal Board of Supervisors or School Board. Unions are just a bad joke. They are useless.

The people who benefit most from teachers' unions are the union leaders.

signed: former teacher

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Anonymous wrote:Reid operated in a manner designed to make the supervisors be the adults in the room and therefore the bad guys whom the unions would attack when the full 7% couldn’t be funded. But now they’ve seen first-hand how she operates and their trust in her is nil.

She needs to be fired.

Inexplicably the school board renewed her contract two years early with a big raise in the midst of the Hayfield debacle.

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Anonymous wrote:Reid operated in a manner designed to make the supervisors be the adults in the room and therefore the bad guys whom the unions would attack when the full 7% couldn’t be funded. But now they’ve seen first-hand how she operates and their trust in her is nil.

She needs to be fired.

Inexplicably the school board renewed her contract two years early with a big raise in the midst of the Hayfield debacle.

Had anything ever come out for WHY felt the need to revere 2 years early? Agreed the timing was really odd.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the County did agreements with police and firefighters that were connected to reality and available funds. FCPS entered into an agreement that didn’t remotely take available money into account. It’s such a failure on Reid’s part. She has screwed up two budgets and one collective bargaining so far. Not to mention all the other scandals like Hayfield.

Meanwhile the schools are getting another big increase in the transfer from the county this year. I really hope they use it to target raises to teachers and other student-facing jobs, not every employee like Reid put in her budget.

Got it, ten percent for firefighters and police is reality, but 7% for teachers isn't.

Yes- there are many fewer firefighters and police than teachers so the cost is much lower. Plus their vacancy rates were super high. The county didn’t give all of its employees a huge raise- they tailored it to the needs based on vacancies. Fcps wanted to give a 7% raise to every one of its employees! Not connected to vacancy rates or even market pay. They cut nothing from their budget. The county gave them $118 million more than last year even though enrollment is flat. Fcps should cut things they don’t need, including the five extra chiefs making $250K that Reid has added and focus raises on positions that need them based on data.

The raises are connected to market pay. Depending on how many years of experience teachers have, they can make a lot better pay at a surrounding county, and depending on the county, the cost of living is lower too.

Do you have any idea how many teachers and schools staff Bolt for Loudoun and Prince William because they pay more? Do you know how many schools are using unlicensed teachers because we can't keep experienced ones? FCPS is out of whack with pay in the region, and enrollment is creeping back up, so all the uninformed people claiming this county pays teachers more and has declining enrollment need their own remedial classes in reading comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg the union statement derides the tax cut by saying only wealthy people will benefit from a lower property tax rate? They are so out of touch.

Yeah, that was amazingly tone-deaf.

[Anonymous]

Where FCPS is really struggling in attracting the young/new teachers. The best new teachers are no longer coming to FCPS. Part of the issue FCPS has is they created this retirement system that attracts and secures teachers on the back end of their career, but new teachers could care less about retirement. They have bills to pay now.

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Anonymous wrote:Where FCPS is really struggling in attracting the young/new teachers. The best new teachers are no longer coming to FCPS. Part of the issue FCPS has is they created this retirement system that attracts and secures teachers on the back end of their career, but new teachers could care less about retirement. They have bills to pay now.

Then they should have proposed targeted raises for young teachers. Or even targeted raises for all teachers. But not big raises for every single employee in the whole system, including well paid admin at central office. It was a lazy budget without any understanding of the economic conditions.

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Anonymous wrote:Where FCPS is really struggling in attracting the young/new teachers. The best new teachers are no longer coming to FCPS. Part of the issue FCPS has is they created this retirement system that attracts and secures teachers on the back end of their career, but new teachers could care less about retirement. They have bills to pay now.

Then they should have proposed targeted raises for young teachers. Or even targeted raises for all teachers. But not big raises for every single employee in the whole system, including well paid admin at central office. It was a lazy budget without any understanding of the economic conditions.

I really find it interesting that FCPS consolidated years 3,4, and 5 on a single pay step given the often cited statistics about teachers leaving the profession at high rates in the first five years. It just seems counterintuitive to do this.

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Anonymous wrote:Where FCPS is really struggling in attracting the young/new teachers. The best new teachers are no longer coming to FCPS. Part of the issue FCPS has is they created this retirement system that attracts and secures teachers on the back end of their career, but new teachers could care less about retirement. They have bills to pay now.

Then they should have proposed targeted raises for young teachers. Or even targeted raises for all teachers. But not big raises for every single employee in the whole system, including well paid admin at central office. It was a lazy budget without any understanding of the economic conditions.

I really find it interesting that FCPS consolidated years 3,4, and 5 on a single pay step given the often cited statistics about teachers leaving the profession at high rates in the first five years. It just seems counterintuitive to do this.

The consolidated steps represent step freezes, they are not consolidated by design. Each step that is grouped with another step represents one year that a step freeze was instituted.

And those on the higher end of the teacher scale deserve an increase just as much as those on the lower end. Not only have those teachers experienced a number of step freezes over the years, but there is often extra unpaid work involved with being a veteran teacher (mentoring, team leader, chairing committees, etc.) that should be recognized.

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Anonymous wrote:Where FCPS is really struggling in attracting the young/new teachers. The best new teachers are no longer coming to FCPS. Part of the issue FCPS has is they created this retirement system that attracts and secures teachers on the back end of their career, but new teachers could care less about retirement. They have bills to pay now.

Then they should have proposed targeted raises for young teachers. Or even targeted raises for all teachers. But not big raises for every single employee in the whole system, including well paid admin at central office. It was a lazy budget without any understanding of the economic conditions.

I really find it interesting that FCPS consolidated years 3,4, and 5 on a single pay step given the often cited statistics about teachers leaving the profession at high rates in the first five years. It just seems counterintuitive to do this.

The consolidated steps represent step freezes, they are not consolidated by design. Each step that is grouped with another step represents one year that a step freeze was instituted.

And those on the higher end of the teacher scale deserve an increase just as much as those on the lower end. Not only have those teachers experienced a number of step freezes over the years, but there is often extra unpaid work involved with being a veteran teacher (mentoring, team leader, chairing committees, etc.) that should be recognized.

Oh, I don't disagree about the value of senior teachers being recognized and appropriately compensated. I also see that the consolidated step 3 for SY 25/26 is now years 4,5,6 rather than 3,4,5. Is step 3 just going to continue to follow this cohort of teachers for a certain time period, then? Trying to understand this and how it relates to previous years step freezes if the band continues to move.