No. HB 1187
Filed under Education.
Public School Personnel Compensation; Provides that cost-of-living adjustments are for employees with direct student contact; provides that such adjustments do not preclude district school boards from providing other adjustments; removes limitation on such adjustments; revises requirement for use of advanced degrees when setting salary schedules for instructional personnel & school administrators; removes certain limitations for salary adjustments under performance salary schedule.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDDistricts may now give cost-of-living raises to all employees, not just teachers, without a 50% cap. This removes the previous limit that tied non-teacher raises to teacher pay increases.
Schools can now count advanced degrees in unrelated fields if they include 18 related graduate hours. This widens the types of degrees that qualify for salary schedule bumps.
Performance pay rules are loosened. Districts no longer must set specific percentage differences between highly effective and effective ratings, giving them more flexibility in pay design.
AIDistricts may now offer cost-of-living raises to all employees, not just teachers, and are no longer capped at 50% of the teacher adjustment.
AITeachers and administrators can earn salary schedule bumps for advanced degrees in related fields, not just their exact certification area.
AIDistricts are no longer required to set specific percentage formulas for highly effective and effective teacher pay, giving them discretion to design adjustments.
AIAdvanced degrees are explicitly added as a factor districts may use when setting differentiated pay for teachers and administrators.