School board approves salary increases.Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard Some Eugene school administrators will get generous raises over the next two years under a controversial agreement approved Wednesday by the Eugene School Board. The two-year pact, retro- active to July 1, includes standard cost-of-living and insurance increases for all administrators, but also significant boosts aimed at bridging what district officials say is a yawning yawning a deep, involuntary inspiration with the mouth open, often accompanied by the act of stretching. Repeated yawning in the presence of other signs, may accompany signs of chronic abdominal pain or hepatic disease. gap between salaries for Eugene principals and assistant principals and their counterparts in comparable districts - including neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. Spring- field. District officials argued - and school board members agreed - that Eugene needs to stay competitive, offering sal- aries near the top among comparable districts, in order to attract and retain the best and brightest school leaders. But the teachers' union has criticized the district's comparisons and argued that the agreement breaks faith with other employee groups by violating an understanding that all compensation packages grow at a similar rate. Addressing the board, Merri Steele, vice-president of the Eugene Education Association, said teachers support com- com- or col- or con- pref. Together; with; joint; jointly: commensalism. petitive salaries for administrators. However, she said the magnitude in the disparity dis·par·i·ty n. pl. dis·par·i·ties 1. The condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree; difference: "narrow the economic disparities among regions and industries" between the administrator package and those approved earlier this year for teachers and classified employees "has left many of our members in shock." Citing the results of a 2004 market survey, the new agreement pushes all principals and assistants up one salary grade and grants an additional 1.5 percent longevity longevity (lŏnjĕv`ĭtē), term denoting the length or duration of the life of an animal or plant, often used to indicate an unusually long life. increase beginning in the second year. It also tacks on an extra 16 days to the elementary school elementary school: see school. principal traditional 10-month work year and another three days for middle school administrators. For some top-scale elementary school principals, the proposal amounts to more than an 18 percent salary boost. Steele asked that the district conduct a similar market analysis of teacher compensation, based on numbers both sides agree with, and explore ways to address teacher workload The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. An amount of labor While a precise definition of a workload is elusive, a commonly accepted definition is the hypothetical relationship between a group or individual human operator and task demands. . The board passed the agreement without discussion. |
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