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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is 3% + a step.

[list]$80.9 million to provide a market scale adjustment of 3.0% for all employees. 
$58.2 million to provide a step increase for all eligible employees.
$4.3 million to provide a step extension for all scales.[/list]

I'm not sure what you want from FCPS.  The Fairfax Board of Supervisors needs to raise taxes further if you want big teacher raises.[/quote]
We do want greater increases for teachers because we believe they deserve them.

What we want from FCPS is to stop spending on contractors and lawyers.  [b]The money allocated to social engineering programs and to protect FCPS employees who break the law should be plenty to increase teachers salaries more significantly than proposed[/b]. No need to raise our taxes more than they already are. What we need is to redirect expenses by prioritizing what really matters: Our teachers. They are our boots on the ground when it comes to educating our children. Panorama Education, Planned Parenthood, Sidley Austin LLP, and other contractors, are not. 
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It isn’t, and frankly you are stupid for thinking so.[/quote]
Bright one, where is the money coming out from to pay these for-profit organizations? Please enlighten us. [/quote]

It comes out of the budget, but it is a drop in the bucket of a $3.5B budget where the vast majority of costs are school-based personnel.  You could get rid of those things you don’t like and distribute it to the teachers and they wouldn’t even notice in their paychecks.[/quote]

+1. No one who makes these statements does the math. There are a lot of teachers and most of the budget goes to pay. Reallocating these other expenses to all teachers would not result in a meaningful raise.

How about voters don’t tv against a meals tax next time? If we can raise more money (especially in such a low impact way), most voters would be happy to give it to teacher pay. The meals tax vote was such a wasted opportunity.[/quote]

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