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Antigo math teacher urges clearer, fairer placement on new salary scale
Summary
During public comment, math teacher Jesse Kaneter described how the district’s new pay scale could reduce mid-career teachers’ long-term earnings and asked for transparent criteria on placement and retention incentives.
During the public comment portion of the Unified School District of Antigo board meeting, Jesse Kaneter, a math teacher with 13 years at Antigo High School, asked the board for clarity and transparency about the district’s new contract pay scale and how teachers will be placed on it.
Kaneter said the starting salary for a new teacher has increased over recent years—“from $30,000 all the way to $47,000”—and said he fears mid-career teachers may be disadvantaged by the new structure. “If I stay here for the next 13 years, that will be a total change of losing $32,765 of salary that I will have lost because of this new scale, compared to the old one,” Kaneter said, reading calculations he provided to the board.
He asked the district for “the full transparent reason besides attracting new teachers” for the revised pay scale and for clear criteria that will determine each teacher’s placement. Kaneter said the district’s committee structure had been changed and that, without previous committee meetings, staff have fewer opportunities to have questions addressed earlier in the process.
Board leaders told Kaneter to take follow-up questions to the business office and district administration. The item Kaneter was addressing—teacher compensation planning—was listed in the agenda under administrative reports; the board did not take an immediate vote related to the public comment.
