ARTICLE VIII – SALARIES
8.01 Salary Schedule and Index
A. The Salary Schedule and Index currently in effect and approved by the Board in the Schedule of Salaries is available from the Department of Human Resources.
B. The Akron Board of Education agrees to the following condition of settlement with the Akron Education Association effective July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2009.
July 1, 2007
3.0 percent across the board, including all hourly and daily rates negotiated by the bargaining unit.
July 1, 2008
3.0 percent across the board, including all hourly and daily rates negotiated by the bargaining unit.
8.02 Longevity Increments
Years of
Service Amount
For
Effective
Salary Purpose 07/01/05
15.5 9.0%
16.0 10.0%
19.5 10.5%
20.0 11.0%
23.5 11.5%
24.0 12.0%
26.5 12.5%
27.0 13.0%
29.5 13.5%
30.0 14.0%
8.03 Counselor, Librarian and Psychologist
The Counselor ratio shall be 1.10 of the actual salary grid. Counselors shall submit their extended time [ten (10) days] schedule to the building principal not later than August 1. Not more than seven (7) of the ten (10) days shall be scheduled at the beginning or end of the regular school year. Counselors’ payroll periods shall not be affected by the manner in which extended time days are scheduled.
The Librarian shall be paid two (2) percent of actual salary for each additional week beyond the thirty-eight (38) weeks within the school calendar.
The starting salary for a psychologist shall be established at the time of appointment. The annual earned increment shall be $580. The maximum salary for the job classification shall be determined by using the maximum salary for a Master Degree and multiplying by the ratio of 1.175.
8.04 Substitute Teacher
The Akron Board of Education agrees to the following condition of settlement with the Akron Education Association effective July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2009, with respect to substitute teacher pay.
2007-2008 2008-2009
Per day $101.02 $104.05
Per half day 54.42 56.06
Per day after five days 143.98 148.30
Per half day after five days 77.52 79.85
When a substitute teacher has been assigned to a specific position for a period of forty-five (45) days or more (long-term sub), the Board shall grant sick days and all other fringe benefits enjoyed by teachers. Salaries paid to long-term subs shall be determined by the substitute’s training level on the salary schedule at the zero service credit level. Health care benefits shall remain in force through the end of the month during which the long-term assignment ended.
Daily substitutes shall accumulate sick days at the rate of one (1) day per every sixteen (16) days of substitute service. Sick days shall be accumulated in half-day increments, one-half (1/2) day for every eight (8) days of service.
Accumulated sick days may be used at any time in which the substitute is unable, for reasons of illness, to report to an assignment. Multiple days may be taken during a multiple assignment.
When substitutes are required, every effort will be made to place a substitute who possesses a major in that field in the position.
The Board shall tender one year limited contracts to all persons employed as substitutes, who must possess proper certification for the grade and subject they are to teach. Said contracts shall designate employment “for assignment as services are needed to take the place of regular teachers.” The rates of compensation for daily substitute teachers appear in Section 8.04 of this Agreement. Substitutes who are eventually tendered regular teaching contracts shall be granted up to five (5) years credit on the salary schedule under the appropriate training lane.
Long-term substitutes whose assignment includes a last work day prior to a holiday or vacation period shall be paid for the holiday(s).
Substitute teachers shall have the opportunity to read any material which may be considered derogatory to the substitute’s conduct, service, character, or personality, before it is dated and placed in his/her personnel file.
The Department of Human Resources shall notify a substitute within five (5) working days of any written complaint by a parent, student, or school employee which may become a matter of record or lead to a substitute’s exclusion from assignment to a school. Only signed written complaints can become a matter of record; however, a printed email from a principal or teacher is acceptable.
Substitute teachers shall have the right to respond to any such complaints in writing and to have the response attached to all copies of the complaint kept on file by the Board. A substitute may appeal any decision by the Department of Human Resources to exclude him/her from assignment to a building as the result of a complaint. Appeals must be filed with the Director of Human Resources within five (5) work days following the notice of exclusion. The Director of Human Resources shall issue a finding within five (5) work days following receipt of the appeal. A substitute may grieve a decision to exclude him/her from assignment to a building following the appeal process with the written consent of the association or its president.
8.05 Extra Pay for Extra Duty
If, in the opinion of the building principal, a conflict exists between a member’s obligation related to a supplemental contract and the member’s obligation related to his/her full time employment, the principal may request the Joint Professional Problems Committee to establish clear direction and priority between the conflicting obligations. If the Joint Professional Problems Committee is not scheduled to meet before the conflict must be resolved, the Executive Director, Human Resources, and the President shall resolve the conflict.
The percentage shall be applied to the minimum salary of a Bachelor degree teacher as of each September.
Unless specified otherwise, buildings shall be eligible for only one supplemental in each job code.
High School
Athletic
Director
15%
Assistant Athletic
Director
6%
Audio Visual Coordinator – High
School 5%
Band, Marching
Director
17%
Band, Marching Assistant
Director 9%
Baseball,
Coach
12%
Baseball, Junior Varsity
Coach** 8%
Baseball, Freshman
Coach**
8%
Basketball, Coach (Boys &
Girls) 20%
Basketball, Junior Varsity Coach
(Boys/Girls)** 10%
Basketball, Freshman Coach
(Boys/Girls)** 7%
Bowling
4%
Cheerleading
Supervisor
10%
Cheerleading, Assistant
Supervisor 6%
Cross Country, Coach
(Boys/Girls) 8.5%
Debate
Coach*
8.0%
Diving
Coach
9.0%
Drama,
Coach
9%
Football
Coach
20%
Football, Junior Varsity
Coach** 12%
High School (Continued)
Football, Assistant Coach (2 per school)
** 12%
Football, Freshman
Coach
10%
Future Educators Club
Advisor 4%
Golf, Varsity
Coach
8%
Golf, Junior
Varsity
3%
Gymnastics,
Coach**
8%
Intervention Assistance Team Member (IAT)
2%
(3 per school)
Music, Vocal
Director
8%
Music, Concert
Band
7%
Music, Jazz
Band
7%
Music,
Orchestra
5%
National Honor Society
Advisor 4%
Newspaper Advisor (7
issues)
4%
Senior Class
Advisor
4%
School
Treasurer
12%
Soccer, Varsity
Coach
12%
Soccer, Junior Varsity
Coach** 8%
Soccer,
Freshman**
8%
Softball, Varsity
Coach
12%
Softball, Junior Varsity
Coach** 8%
Softball, Freshman
Coach**
8%
Student Council
Advisor
7%
Swimming
Coach
9%
Swimming, Assistant Varsity
Coach 6%
Technology
Coordinator
3%
Tennis, Varsity
Coach
9%
Tennis, Assistant Varsity
Coach 3%
Track, Varsity
Coach
12%
Track, Assistant Varsity
Coach 8%
Track, Freshman
Coach
8%
Volleyball, Varsity
Coach
12%
Volleyball, Junior Varsity
Coach 8%
Volleyball, Freshman
Coach** 8%
Wrestling, Varsity
Coach
15%
Wrestling, Junior Varsity
Coach 9%
Wrestling, Freshman
Coach
7%
Yearbook
Advisor
6%
* Applies only to schools with a charter or eligible for a charter.
** In order to qualify for compensation in these areas, it will be necessary to submit a schedule and program to the Director of Interscholastic Athletics no later than November
Middle School
Activity Supervisor (1 per 200
students)** 5%
Audio Visual
Coordinator
4%
Basketball
Coach
8%
Director,
Intramurals*
5%
Drama
Coach
3%
Intervention Assistance Team Member (IAT)
2%
(3per school)
Middle School (continued)
Music, Instrumental
Director
4%
Music, Instrumental Strings
Director 4%
Music, Vocal
Director
4%
Newspaper
Advisor
2%
School
Treasurer
8%
Soccer
Coach
8%
Softball,
Coach
5%
Technology
Coordinator
2%
Track
Coach
8%
Volleyball
Coach
6%
Wrestling
Coach
8%
*The Director of Intramurals will be required to submit a plan for the Intramurals program by October 1 to the Director of Interscholastic Athletics.
The program shall reflect the year’s activities, the estimated number of participants for each segment of the intramural program and the time and location of the activities.
**Activity Supervisors are assigned on the basis of the average daily membership specified on the February abstract of the previous school year; 1 for each 200 students in attendance. Fractional equivalents are not provided.
All teachers receiving compensation for additional duties outside their regular contract are required to carry a normal daily work load. Exceptions:
1. Varsity coaches in each high school are to be provided with an additional conference period during the months in which the activity is occurring. When possible, the additional planning period should be scheduled for the final period in the school day. Coaches shall be required to teach six (6) periods per day.
2. The Athletic Director and the School Treasurer in each high school shall teach five (5) periods per day. Assignments to a study hall or homeroom shall not be made. Deviation from these provisions shall require the approval of the President.
3. The Intramural Director in each middle school shall be assigned six (6) teaching periods and a special duty period daily. The Intramural Director shall not be assigned a homeroom responsibility.
4. The School Treasurer in each middle school shall carry a normal teaching load; he shall not be assigned a homeroom or a special duty period.
Elementary School
Activity Supervisor (minimum of 2 per
building 5%
or 1 per 100 students or major fraction thereof,
whichever is greater)
Art, Building Coordinator (one per building)*
2%; 4% if no classroom
Audio Visual
Coordinator
3%
Breakfast
Coordinator
3%
Combination Class
Teacher
6%
Intervention Assistance Team Member (IAT)
2%
(3 per school)
Music, Vocal Director (One per building)
2%; 4% if no classroom
Safety
Patrol
5%
Technology
Coordinator
2%
* A supplemental contract in the amount of two (2) or four (4) percent of the BA minimum, in accordance with the above schedule, shall be offered to an art teacher in each elementary school. Specific responsibilities within the context of building-wide displays shall be mutually determined by the contract recipient and the building principal. If the art teacher declines the supplemental contract, the contract with the same expectations shall be offered to other staff members in the building. Where mutual agreement is not able to be reached, the issue may be referred to the Joint Professional Problems Committee by the Executive Director, Human Resources, or the President.
All extended time contracts, with the exception of guidance counselors (JC 054 and 055) shall be issued as supplemental contracts.
In addition to the percentages listed above, members who hold supplemental contract positions shall be granted longevity increments of 10 percent. Longevity increments shall be applied at the beginning of the member’s sixth consecutive year of service in any one supplemental contract or combination of supplemental contracts.
One year’s credit shall be granted to a member for each year in which a supplemental contract was held. Members who hold more than one supplemental contract during a year shall receive only one year’s credit for the year in which multiple contracts were held.
Additional supplemental contract positions shall not be established without the consent of the President.
8.06 Mileage
The rate of reimbursement shall be the amount per mile established by the Internal Revenue Service, in effect as of July 1, for each succeeding school year but not less than $5 for each authorized athletic trip in which students are transported.
Mileage payments for the performance of supplemental contract duties shall not be made from individual team or activity budgets but shall be paid by the Treasurer up to $1,000 per school year in any middle school or $1,500 per school per year in any high school.
This provision shall not prohibit additional expenditures of funds from individual school, team or activity budgets.
Members who are required to travel to fulfill job responsibilities (inservice or staff meeting out of their building, assignment to two or more buildings, etc.) and members who transport students to authorized activities relating to the curriculum (excepting member-planned field trips) shall be entitled to the per mile reimbursement rate established by the Internal Revenue Service.
8.07 Board Pickup of Member Contributions to STRS
A. For purposes of this section, total annual salary and salary per pay for each member shall be the salary otherwise payable under this Agreement. The total annual salary and salary per pay period of each member shall be payable by the Board in two (2) parts: (1) deferred salary and (2) cash salary. A member’s deferred salary shall be equal to that percentage of said member’s total annual salary or salary per pay period which is required from time to time by the State Teachers Retirement System (“STRS”) to be paid as an employee contribution by said member and shall be paid by the Board to STRS on behalf of said member as a pickup of the STRS employee contribution otherwise payable by said member. A member’s cash salary shall be equal to said member’s total annual salary or salary per pay period less the amount of the pickup for said member and shall be payable, subject to applicable payroll deductions, to said member. The Board’s total combines expenditures for members’ total annual salaries otherwise payable under this Agreement as amended (including pickup amounts) and its employer contributions to STRS shall not be greater than the amounts it would have paid for those items had this provision not been in effect.
B. The Treasurer shall compute and remit the employer contributions to STRS based upon total annual salary, including the pickup. The Treasurer shall report for federal and Ohio income tax purposes as a member’s gross income said member’s total annual salary less the amount of the pickup. The Treasurer shall report for municipal income tax purposes as a member’s gross income said member’s total annual salary, including the amount of the pickup. The Treasurer shall compute income tax withholding based upon gross income as reported to the respective taxing authorities.
C. The pickup shall be included in the member’s total annual salary for the purpose of computing daily rate of pay, for determining paid salary adjustments to be made due to absence, or for any other similar purpose.
D. The pickup shall apply to all payroll payments made after the adoption of this Agreement.
8.08 Combination Class Pay
Any member in grades one through six who is assigned a combination class shall receive a supplemental contract at the rate of 6% annually.
8.09 Changes in Training Levels
Members who advance a training lane on the salary grid shall be compensated for such advancement effective the payroll date following Board approval. In order to qualify for a change in salary rate at the beginning of the school year, a member shall be required to submit an official transcript to the Department of Human Resources not later that September 15. In order to qualify for a change in annual salary rate for the second semester, the member shall be required to submit an official transcript to the Department of Human Resources not later than January 15.
Members may earn credit on the salary schedule for coursework completed through distance learning programs. In order to be eligible for credit on the salary schedule, the coursework must be offered through an accredited institution and the distance learning provider must be on the approved list of providers on file with the Local Professional Development Committee. Any distance learning coursework through institutions not on the LPDC approved list of providers shall not be eligible for credit on the salary schedule.
Effective July 1, 1992, credit shall not be granted for correspondence courses in any calculation for advancement on the salary schedule. Correspondence courses are courses of instruction completed entirely through the mail, including the sending of lessons and examinations. Independent study shall not be considered correspondence course work.
Credit earned through correspondence course work prior to July 1, 1992, shall not be affected by these provisions. Disputes arising under this section shall be referred to the Joint Professional Problems Committee before a resolution is sought through the grievance arbitration procedures herein.
For purposes of advancement on the training lanes, occupational and physical therapists may apply continuing education units earned through licensure requirements and/or through self-study programs sponsored by their respective professional organizations and approved through an accredited college or university. Said CEU’s (ten (10) contact hours is equivalent to one (1) CEU) shall be converted to graduate credit hours for purposes of advancement on the scale, three (3) CEU’s being equivalent to one (1) graduate hour. The equivalent number of hours which may be earned shall not exceed thirty (30). Therapists may apply up to thirty (30) CEU’s approved through the AEA-APS LPDC toward the thirty (30) graduate hour requirement.
8.10 Vacation
A. Full time members in the Adult Vocational School and Family Life who work at least forty-eight (48) weeks each year and full time hourly compensated employees who work time schedule 522 shall earn paid vacation in accordance with the following schedule:
Less than one (1)
year One (1) day per
month
(to ten (10) days)
1-4
years
Two (2) weeks
(ten (10) days)
5-13
years
Three (3) weeks
(fifteen (15) days)
14
years
Four (4) weeks
(twenty (20) days)
15 years Twenty one (21) days
16 years Twenty two (22) days
17 years Twenty three (23) days
18 years Twenty four (24) days
19 or more
years Five
(5) weeks
(Twenty five (25) days)
Vacation is taken in the period January 1 to December 31 subsequent to the period in which is was earned.
B. Application shall be made in writing and forwarded to the Department of Human Resources on the “Request for Approval and Authorization of Annual Vacation.” Application should be made at least two (2) weeks in advance.
C. No more than 5 vacation days may be taken when school is in session. The balance of vacation shall be taken when classes are not in session and must be approved by the Superintendent or his designee. Authorization for vacation shall not be unreasonably withheld.
D. When qualified substitutes are not available, part time instructors may volunteer to substitute. Additional hours accrued as the result of substituting shall not be used to qualify the part time member for full time status and/or fringe benefits.
8.11 Hourly Compensated Teachers
Hourly teachers are those compensated on an hourly basis who serve in hourly rated vocational programs, adult education, family life, or similar programs. Hourly compensated teachers shall not be used to conduct classes normally staffed by regular salaried day-school teachers.
Hourly teachers who possess a degree and full certification and who work full-time (see Section 3.01M) are considered to be regular contract employees, paid on an hourly basis, and shall be issued limited (one-year) contracts, unless the member possesses an eight-year professional certificate. Teachers in the Adult Vocational Services Program are eligible for transfer to a regular day school vacancy and shall have all the benefits extended to other members of the bargaining unit. Sick days shall be accumulated in half-day increment, one-half (1/2) day for every eight (8) days of service. Holidays shall be paid in accordance with the time schedule worked. Full-time hourly teachers shall be granted a year of service for each year worked under the full-time hourly contract.
Other teacher (part-time) in such programs shall be extended a contract which specifies part-time employment at the hourly rate specified elsewhere in this Agreement. Sick days shall be accumulated in half-day increments, one-half (1/2) day for every eight (8) days of service. Holidays shall be paid in accordance with the time schedule worked.
Teachers in the following job codes shall be issued contracts which specify the hourly rate of pay. In addition, effective July 1, 1994, teachers in the job codes listed shall be placed on the appropriate service credit level for their respective job codes.
Job Codes 039, 452, 454
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0 $24.94 $25.69
1 $25.25 $26.01
2 $25.43 $26.19
3 $25.76 $26.53
4 $26.10 $26.88
5 $26.44 $27.23
10 $27.51 $28.34
15* $28.61 $29.47
16 $30.74 $31.66
20 $31.01 $31.94
24 $31.29 $32.23
27 $31.57 $32.52
30 $31.85 $32.81
*This step is to be eliminated. It would apply only to any member reaching this step for 2007-2008.
8.12 Tutors
Tutors are teachers in day-school programs employed to supplement instruction and are paid an hourly rate. Tutors shall not be used to perform work which is normally performed by regular salaried day-school teachers, nor shall they be used in adult programs where high school course credit is given.
Tutors shall be considered full-time if they qualify for such designation by virtue of the definition in Section 3.01 M. Full-time tutors are entitled to the fringe benefits extended to regular contract teachers and hourly teachers.
Tutors shall be given credit on the salary schedule for experience earned on or after September 1, 1985, which will be in accordance with Time Schedule 380. Tutors employed less than five and one-quarter (5 ¼) hours per day shall earn one-half (1/2) day of service credit. Tutors employed for five and one-quarter (5 ¼) hours per day shall earn one (1) day of service credit for each day worked.
8.13 Co-Curricular Transportation Allowance
Effective with the 1989-1990 school year, each cluster will be provided up to $9,000 per year to be used for co-curricular activity transportation. The use of each cluster’s co-curricular transportation allowance shall be determined by the cluster principals in consultation with their coaches and other activity advisors.
8.14 Additional Speech/Hearing Therapist and Psychologist Funded Through Medicaid Reimbursement
If the Board receives $500,000 or more in Medicaid reimbursement during any fiscal year, an additional speech therapist and psychologist shall be hired for the subsequent school year. Should the Board receive less than $500,000 during any year in which an additional therapist is employed, the Board may reduce this position.
In the case of a reduction, the member holding the position shall be released from assignment as described in the provisions of Section 3.13D.
In no case shall a more senior therapist be forced into an alternative teaching area as a result of this reduction.
8.15 Intervention Specialist IEP Day/Supply Allowance Option
One day of substitute coverage, in the months other than September or May, will be provided to each full time intervention specialist for the purpose of completing paperwork related to IEP’s. Members may waive the provision of substitute coverage in return for a supply allowance equivalent to the cost of a daily substitute. This option must be requested during September of a school year with payment made prior to December 1 of that school year.
Intervention Specialists who have completed IEP’s for all students assigned to them shall be excused from attending Parent-Teacher Conferences/Home Visits or Report Card Pickup Conferences.
8.16 JROTC
Non-degreed JROTC instructors shall receive an annual salary from the Board equal to the minimum instructor pay as stipulated by the United States military.
Degreed JROTC instructors shall be placed on the teacher salary schedule under the column of the degree held at the most proximate salary above the minimum instructor pay. Degreed JROTC instructors shall earn annual increments and are eligible to move horizontally on the salary schedule so long as the hours/CEUs earned that would qualify for a degree change adjustment are approved in advance by the LPDC.
Any increase in the minimum instructor pay which occurs after the salaries for JROTC instructors have been set for a school year and which exceeds that salary shall be payable to the instructor in a lump sum prior to September 1 of the following school year.
The Board shall submit to the military a 230 day time schedule for all JROTC instructors.
8.17 Class Coverage
A. When, despite reasonable efforts, the administration is unable to provide a substitute teacher, the Department of Human Resources will make a determination that a substitute cannot be secured.
B. Members may volunteer to perform substitute class coverage duties.
1. In secondary schools, members may cover classes during their regularly scheduled conference or lunch periods;
2. In elementary schools, members may absorb a portion of the uncovered class.
C. Compensation for voluntary class coverage shall be calculated as follows:
1. In secondary schools, members shall be paid at the rate of one-fifth (1/5) or twenty percent (20%) of the daily substitute rate of pay for each class covered, limited to two (2) classes per day.
2. In elementary schools, members shall be paid a prorated amount of the substitute teacher rate, based upon the percentage of students from the uncovered class absorbed into their classroom.
D. Payment for class coverage shall be made at the end of each semester, based upon the Class Coverage Report which the building administrator submits to the Treasurer, listing the names, dates, percentages (elementary), and number of classes covered.
E. The building administrator shall solicit on an annual basis, during the first fifteen (15) work days, the names of members willing to volunteer for class coverage. The names of secondary school volunteers shall be listed by periods available.
F. Coverage assignments shall be distributed on an equitable basis among the members who have volunteered in each building.
G. Disputes arising under this section shall be referred to the Joint Professional Problems Committee before a grievance is processed.
H. The Board shall make every attempt to provide substitute educational assistants for special education classes. When a substitute assistant is not provided, the special education teacher shall be paid the substitute assistant daily rate.
8.18 8.18 Licensed Physical Therapy Technicians (LPTT) and Licensed Occupational Therapy Technicians (LOTT)
Positions shall be full time and the duty day shall conform to the teacher day for the applicable level (elementary, middle or senior high). LPTT’s and LOTT’s will provide services under the supervision of PT’s and OT’s respectively, under existing professional guidelines. Benefits shall be provided to these classifications in the same manner as full-time members.
Wage Rates for LPTTs and LOTTs are as follow:
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