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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCEA is committed to the salary steps which keep experienced teachers from earning decent pay when transferring to MCPS.  MCEA is a big part of the problem.  They also keep sub pay low.  I would not recommend voting for any MCEA endorsed BOE candidates (Yang, Coll, Rivera-Oven). [/quote]

If you had witnessed any part of the public contract negotiations that took place before the pandemic, you would know that is completely untrue. MCEA submitted proposals based on a perceived professional salary of $100k and how long one would expect to get to that level. They also requested dramatic increases in substitute teacher pay. MCPS responded with some gobbledegook of a salary scale which actually included pay decreases for more experienced staff. When called on it, they withdrew the counter offer and did not submit a new one. Increasing teacher pay and planning time have been priorities in MCEA bargaining. Which you would know, again, if you had witnessed any part of the negotiations.  [/quote]

I’m not the PP. I read that as MCEA discourages experienced teachers from transferring in. I don’t think she was referring to existing MCPS teachers.

I posted above about being offered a position. I was offered a job that would pay me 25K less than the published step I should be on if they respected my experience. Instead, I went to a neighboring county that offered me $19K more than MCPS offered. Truthfully, I felt rather disrespected by MCPS. The offer was rather insulting considering my experience and qualifications. (I also received a private school offer that was more than MCPS’s offer.)[/quote]

Name the school district. I don’t believe you. I have 20 years experience at even though I would enter at a higher step in PG, Howard and Fairfax County, it wasn’t step 20 and the pay wasn’t that much (if at all) higher than MCPS. Also, I spent 9 years working in a MoCo private school with $40k annual tuition and I was paid exactly what MCPS would have paid me at the REDUCED entry of step 8. When I first moved to Maryland in 2012, MCPS allowed external candidates with a Master’s to enter at step 12. Then it was reduced to step 10 and now it’s step 8. [/quote]

MCPS step 18 Masters - 102K
MCPS step 8 Masters (top salary for transfer) - 73K
PGCPS step 18 Masters - 88K
HCPSS step 18 Masters - 91K
Fairfax County step 13 Masters - 85K - cap for transfers is 13 and still higher than MCPS

What’s there not to believe? So the numbers may have been a bit off because I’m using current salary scales, but the point remains. MCPS is not attractive to experienced teachers.

As for your private experience, private schools vary WIDELY. 
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Yea, private school pay does vary widely. However, the salaries I’ve been offered at other local private schools was still below $80k. My spouse works in DC private that costs over $40k a year and gets paid $70k on the dot. Health insurance at private schools is also terrible. This is one of the main reasons I’m moving back to public. There are no pensions for private school teachers and you’re at the whim of the stock market in your 403b.  If you’re lucky you will get a percentage or 2 of matching from the school. My private school offered 50% tuition remission (valued at $20k/kid) plus free aftercare. My spouse gets 80% tuition remission. This is how private schools justify paying their teachers so little [/quote]

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