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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

Yes, unfortunately that cluster follows the cohort because frozen steps are never given back. Leadership has said that it’s impossible to figure out how many steps everyone is missing and would be too costly to put everyone on the correct step. That means they just consolidate steps each time there is a freeze. So next year, for example, a teacher with 25 years of experience (in their 26th 
year) will be on step 21. [/quote]

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