DCPS Teacher Strike?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a ditrct quote from NPR this morning: "We have the highest first-year teacher salary in the country, and the fastest path to a six-figure salary", says Chancellor Wilson.

The Chancellor should have added: "...for teachers working in our Title I schools."

I'm a highly effective teacher with DCPS for +7 years, still earning five figures.

Our colleagues in Title I schools deserve those bonuses. We all deserve retro pay and a fair salary increase, just like firefighters/emts and police officers received in their latest contract.

Our schools are being told that we will have budget cuts and will lose teachers next year. We are being told that there is no money for teacher salary increases. This is an expense that should have been anticipated, given the five years the District has stalled the negotiating process.

The city has a $2 billion reserve. Why aren't our public schools and teachers worth funding?

I agree that teachers should be fairly paid. However, complaining that you have been teaching for 7 years and aren't yet making six figures is ludicrous, and not going to earn you any support. Fair is obviously in the eye of the beholder.

My mom taught for 40 years with two specialized masters degrees and never broke six figures! How many careers around here do break six figures?

Yes, but when was that and where did you grow up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a ditrct quote from NPR this morning: "We have the highest first-year teacher salary in the country, and the fastest path to a six-figure salary", says Chancellor Wilson.

The Chancellor should have added: "...for teachers working in our Title I schools."

I'm a highly effective teacher with DCPS for +7 years, still earning five figures.

Our colleagues in Title I schools deserve those bonuses. We all deserve retro pay and a fair salary increase, just like firefighters/emts and police officers received in their latest contract.

Our schools are being told that we will have budget cuts and will lose teachers next year. We are being told that there is no money for teacher salary increases. This is an expense that should have been anticipated, given the five years the District has stalled the negotiating process.

The city has a $2 billion reserve. Why aren't our public schools and teachers worth funding?

I agree that teachers should be fairly paid. However, complaining that you have been teaching for 7 years and aren't yet making six figures is ludicrous, and not going to earn you any support. Fair is obviously in the eye of the beholder.

My mom taught for 40 years with two specialized masters degrees and never broke six figures! How many careers around here do break six figures?

Yes, but when was that and where did you grow up?

And furthermore, that doesn't make it right!

[Anonymous]

Data re: teacher salaries adjusted for cost of living, ranked by state.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teacher-salaries-adjusted-cost-living-rick-kahler-msfp-chfc

[Anonymous]

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"The adjusted salaries drop the second-highest paid teachers of Massachusetts to 37th place with $45,939, while those in the District of Columbia fall from third to 42nd with a comparatively low $43,379."

[Anonymous]

Not really a "pathway to the middle class" once you take into account cost of living. More like "vision zero".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not really a "pathway to the middle class" once you take into account cost of living. More like "vision zero".

THANK YOU!

Throw in daycare or before and aftercare and it makes sense that so many of us work two jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a ditrct quote from NPR this morning: "We have the highest first-year teacher salary in the country, and the fastest path to a six-figure salary", says Chancellor Wilson.

The Chancellor should have added: "...for teachers working in our Title I schools."

I'm a highly effective teacher with DCPS for +7 years, still earning five figures.

Our colleagues in Title I schools deserve those bonuses. We all deserve retro pay and a fair salary increase, just like firefighters/emts and police officers received in their latest contract.

Our schools are being told that we will have budget cuts and will lose teachers next year. We are being told that there is no money for teacher salary increases. This is an expense that should have been anticipated, given the five years the District has stalled the negotiating process.

The city has a $2 billion reserve. Why aren't our public schools and teachers worth funding?

I agree that teachers should be fairly paid. However, complaining that you have been teaching for 7 years and aren't yet making six figures is ludicrous, and not going to earn you any support. Fair is obviously in the eye of the beholder.

^^^ This is what we were told too, plus the whole TLI crap draining a teacher from our pot might create a reduction.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, PP - what does this mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, PP - what does this mean?

The LEAP stuff. TLI=Teacher Leadership Innovation

[Anonymous]

Not sure how it relates to the quoted post in your message...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how it relates to the quoted post in your message...

Not the PP but I think she was adding onto this statement

Our colleagues in Title I schools deserve those bonuses. We all deserve retro pay and a fair salary increase, just like firefighters/emts and police officers received in their latest contract.

Our schools are being told that we will have budget cuts and will lose teachers next year. We are being told that there is no money for teacher salary increases. This is an expense that should have been anticipated, given the five years the District has stalled the negotiating process.

The city has a $2 billion reserve. Why aren't our public schools and teachers worth funding?

noting that schools already lost teaching staff to the LEAP initiative.

[Anonymous]

Got it - thanks! (And I agree.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they don't have a contact, how can they be held accountable for a clause within it?

Although the contract has expired, the Union and DCPS are still held to the conditions of the contract. However, there have been no raises since the contract expired. The pay scale has been frozen since the year it expired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there any info on the other side of the story? I fully support our teachers, but sometimes the union asks for too much. Are the facts of the negotiation laid out anywhere?

None of the details have been disclosed in writing. But the WTU president did outline the compensation offer to members who attended a recent meeting. It was not acceptable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any info on the other side of the story? I fully support our teachers, but sometimes the union asks for too much. Are the facts of the negotiation laid out anywhere?

None of the details have been disclosed in writing. But the WTU president did outline the compensation offer to members who attended a recent meeting. It was not acceptable.

What does "not acceptable" mean? I'm happy to go to bat for you with the mayor, but not without knowing what I'm arguing against.