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Madison teachers press board to fix long-standing salary compression; district to run RFP prioritizing teachers
Summary
Dozens of veteran teachers and parents urged the Madison Metropolitan School District Board to correct a salary schedule they say has undervalued long‑service staff for years. Administrators said a vendor RFP is near selection and the teacher unit will be prioritized; concrete implementation timing will follow.
Dozens of veteran teachers and parents told the Madison Metropolitan School District Board on Nov. 24 that a salary compression change dating to 2001 has stripped years of step increases from long-serving educators, reducing pay now and lowering retirement benefits.
"You can fix this. You need to fix this," said one teacher who described doing the math on decades of paychecks and urged the board to make remediation an urgent priority. Andrea Mizzarelli, president of the teachers unit for Madison Teachers Inc., said she estimated it would cost close to…
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