Iowa House passes largest teacher pay increase in state history
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This. Most districts already pay this as a starting wage. It does next to nothing while they continue to slash services for kids in poverty or are disabled. Of course OP and his fellow conservative losers are too busy stroking each other to understand this.
I agree with the premise of your post, but most schools in Iowa definitely do not pay $50k to first year teachers.
Ok so unless you are coaching softball or baseball in Iowa what are you doing during the months of June and July? I’m pretty sure each sport only has a handful of coaches. Pretty sure schools consist of more than a handful of teachers.
I don’t think I ever once mentioned anything about hours.
Besides that, if you want to talk about coaching, coaches are paid additional wages outside of teaching wages so I’m not sure why you would consider those extra hours part of how many hours a teacher works.
Plenty of people work a full time job and do other side jobs. Hell for 10 years I had a full time job and a part time job working 15-20 hours and I didn’t have the convenience of walking down the hall to get to my other job.
They are still bitching in this very thread.
I wouldn't call it bitching, I call it trying to understand if this bill will do anything to improve the salary of veteran teachers.
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Again how many hours do you think a coach works for that $4k basketball job?
Hours at practice
Hours in buses
Hours waiting for your game
Hours watching film
Hours in open gym
Hours in the weightroom
Hours at summer camp
Hours at coaching clinics
Hours at all conference meetings
Hours working little kids camps
Hours working little kids tournaments
Hours washing laundry
Hours cleaning water bottles gyms floors
All for $4k with the bonus of fielding complaints because Johnny isn’t playing because he didn’t show up all summer for open gym and doesn’t learn the plays.
I don't know why we're paying a bunch of indoctrinating groomers this kind of money, amirite?!?!
@Tom Paris , @bojihawk44 , @Bulldogs1974 or any other board Iowa teachers, do you have access to your district's salary schedule that can be shared? I retired in 2016 and I believe the base salary was around $38,000. I looked for the master contract which used to be posted online, but I can't find it anywhere. What are your school's enrollment and base salary numbers?
Funny you say this. One of my best friends was a varsity HC in Iowa for years and we once tried to figure out how much he was actually making per-hour when you break down all the stuff posted above and it's basically pennies.
Great for teachers. Also, teachers have incredibly good benefits to tag with this well-deserved bump.
IPERS & Health Insurance are outstanding.
IPERS & Health Insurance are outstanding.
Thanks I missed that. I think large school districts are skewing the average. I would be shocked if my former employer or surrounding districts were paying anything close to $47500 as a base salary.
IPERS is a great benefit, health insurance varies by district.
Hours matters too. No one would bat an eye if someone worked 5 8 hour days or 4-10 hour days. Well unless it were a teacher.
Who coaches sports? You know the thing many people find more important than school but no one really wants to do.
By all means pay your coaches $10/hour and see what that does to salaries.
Again as I state everytime these threads come up, my salary is fine. Who would say no to more. It’s the clueless people “bitching” about 9 months of work that have the issue.
IPERS is great, but I pay over $1200/month for health insurance. I wouldn't call that incredibly good.
We don't have a salary schedule. Everyone gets the same percent increase each year. Starting teacher pay is just under $41k.
That's closer, but definitely not most. We pay just under $41k for starting teachers. One of our student teachers just got hired at a 3A school starting at just over $43k. It will be a significant increase for starting teachers in most districts in Iowa.
Metro districts are obviously the outlier in the equation, but they are a small percent of districts in Iowa, although I realize they have many more teachers per district.
Never a good or logical one.
At your core you think teachers are overpaid groomers and republicans are the cause of all good in this world. You are the chis of the hrot Republican world.
That's not good. My wife's insurance is worth about 20k/yr. $0 comes out of her paycheck.
Just curious but is there a max on teacher salaries in most districts? What would a 20 year veteran teacher make?
A max? No, at least not in our district.
Right now, I'd guess a teacher with 20 years experience is making roughly $65k not including extra duty contracts obviously.
Jesus Christ. Stay in that district, I have no idea how they can afford that. And she's not an administrator?
I can't speak for every district, but at my former employer the salary schedule started at step 0 and maxed out at 20 for teachers with a masters. Those at the bottom of the schedule only received an increase of whatever amount was added to the base for many years. We were finally able to negotiate a small percentage increase for those that bottomed out that kicked in every five years. I retired in 2016 with a 34 years of experience and a master's degree with a salary of $65,000. I'm sure it's gone up some, but the state has taken away most of the ability for teacher's to negotiate so I doubt it's that much.
It's in Nebraska, and it's NPERS, which mirror each other pretty much. Nebraska's property taxes are insanely high, so farmland pretty much supports whatever the school can do.
No, she's a 12 year Elementary teacher with a Masters.
Her total compensation comes to around 105k.
My BIL teaches in the Madison area and doesn't pay a single dime for health insurance premiums.
Probably because the veterans failed to teach and they’re looking to entice teachers that will change that. It’s a desperate move, but it’s money first when it comes to public school teachers.
For family health insurance? If so, that's extremely rare and extremely costly. I can't imagine how distracts afford that unless they have a ton of students and are understaffed.
