No. SB 1720
Filed under Education.
Public School Personnel Compensation; Providing that employees with direct student contact may receive cost-of-living salary adjustments; deleting a limitation on cost-of-living salary adjustments; revising the requirement for the use of advanced degrees when setting salary schedules for instructional personnel and school administrators, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDDistricts may now give cost-of-living raises to all staff with direct student contact, not just teachers. This removes the previous cap that limited these adjustments to 50 percent of the teacher increase.
Schools can now count advanced degrees in unrelated fields if they include 18 graduate hours related to the teacher's assignment. This broadens who qualifies for higher pay based on education.
The bill removes the specific percentage formulas that previously dictated how much more highly effective teachers must earn compared to other staff. Districts now have discretion to set these performance-based pay differences.
AISchools may now count advanced degrees in related fields or with 18 relevant graduate hours toward salary schedules, not just degrees in the exact certification area.
AIDistricts must now include advanced degrees as a factor when setting differentiated pay for teachers and administrators.
AIThe bill removes the specific percentage formulas for performance pay and requires that annual salary adjustments only be provided to employees rated highly effective or effective.