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3.7% pay cut for DCPS teachers for SY 19-20
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Anonymous
Teachers will see and feel the lost income every payday and on their W-2s for 2019 and 2020. |
Anonymous
Any teacher who continues to deny basic math facts should be fired. |
Anonymous
I believe you are the one missing basic facts. Given the schedule shift, the coming year of pay is effectively 53 weeks long. It’s the same pay for the same work, but that work happens slightly later in time, so the cash received per week is slightly less. It will impact each paycheck, and the W-2 for 2019 will be slightly lower than without the schedule shift. You can keep insulting people, but that doesn’t make you ri. |
Anonymous
| ^^ right, not ri |
Anonymous
That wouldn’t make any sense. If they have to cut spending by Sept. 30, they are actually advancing us money before then. If we were skipping a check it would be a furlough. And, after this academic year, we will have made exactly what the salary scale says we should, so not being furloughed. CAN SOMEONE WHO SAYS THIS IS A PAY CUT PLEASE REPORT WHAT WTU FOUND OUT AND/OR HR EXPLAINED WHEN YOU CALLED TO INQUIRE???? |
Anonymous
| The factory is shutting down for a week, but they are giving a pay advance to keep the checks coming. |
Anonymous
That is the whole point, the factory shuts down every summer but rather than get paid a set amount over the time they are working (the school year) DCPS teachers have the pay for the school year spread across the calendar year. Because the pay calendar every so many years gets off cycle, they are making an adjustment to how that spread across the years happens this year and they chose to spread it across an additional two week pay period v skipping a paycheck. If teachers worked 52 weeks a year like other jobs this would be a pay cut but they do not and it is not. They work the school year for a certain amount of pay, the amount they are actually getting paid that will be spread across 27 pay periods this year. |
Anonymous
It will also decrease a teacher's income during 2020, because the school year takes place during two calandar years. Another way to look at it is, suppose we say, OK, the annual pay for teachers will extend over 27 pay periods. That would mean that the previous year's pay would extend over 25 pay periods. If that were true, and teacher's annual income was not being decreased, then teachers should have been receiving slightly higher paychecks, since the same annual income would be divided into fewer pay periods. Alas, that is not what happened. So this mythical 27th pay period is what it is. A myth. |