The Plymouth Community School Board held a public hearing Monday for the purpose of gaining input from the public on the proposed Master Contract between the Plymouth Education Association and the Plymouth Community School Corporation.
With no public members in attendance to give input the meeting was opened and closed in three minutes.
The proposed contract for July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, proposes a raise in the salary range for returning teachers from the previous $40,000 – $71,848 to $46,000-$74,848 for 2023-2024 upon ratification of the contract.
Once teachers reach $75,848 as their base salary, they will no longer receive a base salary increase but will be eligible for a stipend equivalent to any base salary increases all other teachers receive.
A teacher who receives an evaluation rating of “ineffective” or “improvement necessary” in the prior school year is not eligible for any salary increase and remains at their prior year’s salary unless the teacher is in the first two full years of instructing students. Then they would be eligible for a salary increase.
Teachers must work at least 120 days to qualify for a base salary increase and any increase will not be paid to teachers who are no longer employed by the corporation as full-time certified teachers as of the date of ratification.
Teachers who receive an evaluation rating of effective or highly effective will receive a $1,000 increase in their base salary.
For the 2023-2024 school year, any eligible teacher, who after the increase for the evaluation factor is below the current year’s beginning salary of a new teacher with the same years of experience, will receive an additional pay increase to put the teacher at the beginning base salary.
The proposed Master Contract will now go on to be considered by the Plymouth Community School Board.
