School district reaches tentative salary agreement with employees’ union
Press release from Alachua County Public Schools
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – Alachua County Public Schools has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing teachers and most of the district’s other employees.
The district’s negotiating team and the Alachua County Education Association (ACEA) tentatively agreed to an across-the-board 3.5% salary increase for instructional and non-instructional personnel. That increase is in addition to the automatic ‘step’ increase those employees receive at the beginning of each school year as long as they completed half of their contract the previous year. The step increase typically averages 1%.
The increase would be retroactive to July 1 of 2023, depending on when each employee’s contract took effect. For example, if an employee’s contract for 2023-24 started the first day of school, the raise would be retroactive to that date.
The salary agreement still has to be ratified by employees, then approved by the School Board. The district is hoping to place the new salary schedule on the School Board meeting agenda for January 16 if the employee vote is completed in time.
“We appreciate the collaboration between the district and the ACEA to reach this tentative agreement,” said Superintendent Shane Andrew. “I’m sure it’s welcome news for employees. Once the salary schedule is ratified by employees and approved by the School Board, district staff will be working very hard to get those dollars into employees’ paychecks as quickly as possible.”
If that is the raise for instructional and non instructional employees it should suffice for the superintendent.
3.5 % dosent even cover the cost of living.
Cut the bloated admin (or non-instructional as they say). Make them leave or retire. Those exponentially multiplying anchors are drowning schools nationwide. The vast majority are absolutely unnecessary! Reminds me of a succubust.
Once you cut the dead weight you’ll be able to properly pay the actual teachers and build more schools
So the SBAC is giving the people charged with instructing and caring for our children roughly 6 hours a day a 3.5% increase while proposing an almost 30% increase for the superintendent…
Wonder if the superintendent would settle for a 3.5% increase as well?
Still think they care about the employees?
The 16.9% property tax rate increase in Gainesville and surrounding villages memo must have not been received by the ACEA negotiators.
Could they have asked for an educators’ discount? Didn’t they have any coupons?
Governor Desantis has done more for educators in his two terms, then the ACEA ever tried to do. The ACEA is worthless, corrupted by ideology, and just needs to slink away into the depths never to return.