Burlington, News

BASD salary increases approved

By Jennifer Eisenbart

Editor

For the first time in recent memory, the Burlington Area School District is negotiating teacher salaries for the future instead of the past.

With a 5-2 vote to approve the salary schedules for both 2013-14 and 2014-15 Monday night at a special meeting of the School Board, the district will have its teachers’ salaries set through the end of the school year.

BASD will begin negotiating the 2015-16 school year most likely in December, according to officials.

The final salary schedules allotted a 1.86 percent increase to base salary for the 2013-14 school year, and a 1.36 percent per cell increase.

For the 2014-15 school year, a 1.46 percent base wage increase is allotted, and a .928 cell increase.

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3 Comments

  1. I'll Bet I can guess who voted no...

    Doesn’t take a rocket scientist..

    April 2015 can’t come fast enough..

  2. Local Businessman

    I work in the private sector and I have received a better raise than the people we trust to educate our children….. Something about that isn’t right! We trust our kids to these teachers, but yet some feel the teachers should make peanuts for a salary and never get a raise….. Hmmmmmm…. flawed logic I guess!

    • Local Businessman,

      So because you are not a teacher you don’t deserve a good raise? Deep down do you know you didn’t work hard enough to deserve it? Which school does your wife teach at anyways?