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Leon County Schools, LCTA reach tentative terms: 3.037% raise, sick-leave buyback and trial childcare
Summary
District negotiators and the Leon County Teachers Association reached agreement on a compensation and benefits package that includes a 3.037% across-the-board increase for teachers with more than one year of service, a $500,000 sick-leave buyback pilot, trial employee childcare, and a short parental-leave pilot.
Brett Shively, speaking at Monday’s Leon County School Board meeting, summarized tentative bargaining results with the Leon County Teachers Association (LCTA), saying negotiators have come to agreement on pay and several one- or two-year pilot programs.
Shively said the agreement includes a 3.037% pay increase “across the board for teachers who have been employed with us for more than a year.” He said the salary schedule will also be adjusted to increase the dollar step difference between some years; the district intends to increase the increment between lower steps to about $200 where previously the step was $100.
On benefits, Shively said the parties negotiated three pilot programs:
- A sick-leave buyback pilot that provides up to $500,000 to be paid in buybacks across the 2024–25 and 2025–26 school years, with parameters to limit initial participation while the district calculates cost and uptake.
- A one-year trial of employee before- and after-school childcare that the district will pay for on behalf of employees; employees receive the service free but the district covers the cost.
- A parental-leave pilot for 2025–26 that provides up to five days of leave for eligible employees.
Shively said the package applies to employees on payroll at the time of ratification and that payments are expected to be made with a retroactive payment in March and the remainder spread across subsequent paychecks. Employees on leave who return during the implementation window would receive the increase when they return to payroll.
Shively also noted several contract-language adjustments in articles and appendices and said the union accepted the broad framework that had been anticipated in executive session. The full contract package was being updated for board signature; Shively said the updated documents would be available the day after the meeting.
No formal ratification vote was recorded during the meeting; Shively said staff would deliver the final package and clean contract version for signature once edits and formatting were complete.
