Remember that a budget has not been passed yet. But here is what has been proposed.

1. It’s a framework. It has not been passed.
2. It refuses to offer back pay to teachers from this past year.
3. Budgets in North Carolina are biennially written.
4. Having already taken away graduate degree pay, longevity pay, and due process rights, these potential raises do not offest what has been taken away from teachers.
5. The largest percentage raises are for beginning teachers and not veteran teachers.

Below is what was reported last at the proposed budget conference teacher salary schedule.

Look at the difference between the salaries of a first year teacher and a teacher with 25+ years.

$11,000. Not lots to look forward to.

Why? It’s a way to keep teachers from making the public classroom a career.