Salary & Benefits Schedule and Teacher Tenure Study March 2015 update
Legislative mandate HB278 Section 52 No later than June 15, 2015, the Department of Administration shall present to the legislature a written proposal for a salary and benefits schedule for school districts, including an evaluation of, and recommendations for, teacher tenure.
Study approach Salary & benefits schedule for teachers and principals • • Review current salary schedules & Profile current benefits • Geographic & job differentials (e.g., hard to fill positions) • Create salary & benefits schedule - step-and-lane (traditional) model • Investigate strengths and drawbacks of alternative models & views of educators and stakeholders about these alternatives District profiles for other positions • • Describe the size & diversity of district personnel • Describe range of superintendent duties Recommendations for teacher tenure • • Review of current structure, strengths & drawbacks • Review of alternate models – strengths and drawbacks • Gather views of educators and stakeholders about current structure & alternatives
Where we are… • Continuing to build a literature review • Empirical studies, c ase law, other states’ policies, position papers • Organized existing data into databases for analyses & development of district profiles • Collective bargaining agreements, job descriptions • Certified & classified staffing databases • Statewide survey of teacher working conditions
Where we are… • Collecting new data • Conducted focus groups and interviews with members of stakeholder groups: teachers, principals, superintendents, ALASBO • Continuing focus groups and interviews (AK EED, AASB) • Sending data requests to district • Statewide surveys of administrators, teachers, school board members, parents, school business officers, classified staff etc. launched this week • Phone interviews with superintendents starting this week
Next Steps: Data analysis for the salary and benefit schedules • Calculate teacher and principal responses to community and job characteristics • Estimate job and community differentials • Define labor market for Alaska teachers and principals (and benchmark with national/competing markets) • Using these factors in economic model to create salary and benefit schedules
Next Steps: Data analysis & report preparation for the salary and benefit schedules and tenure study • Summarize stakeholder perspectives from focus groups, interviews and statewide surveys • Contextualize the quantitative data with the perspectives data • Produce draft report for stakeholder & public comment • Produce final report by June 15 • Actions and follow-up are the purview of Alaska State Legislature & Governor
For more information Department of Administration website: http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/HB278SchoolStudy/ CAEPR website: www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/CAEPR/ Email: TeacherSalaryTenure@uaa.alaska.edu Contact the research team: Diane Hirshberg dbhirshberg@alaska.edu 907-786-5413 Alexandra Hill arhill@uaa.alaska.edu 907-786-5436 Dayna Jean DeFeo djdefeo@uaa.alaska.edu 907-786-5494
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