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Madison teachers press board to fix salary compression, warn of staff losses
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Scores of MMSD teachers and parents urged the Board of Education to address salary compression that leaves veteran educators paid near newer hires, citing retention, morale and retirement impacts and urging immediate district action.
Scores of Madison Metropolitan School District educators told the school board on Dec. 15 that long-serving teachers are being shortchanged by a salary system that rewards newer hires and deepens turnover and retirement losses.
"The time to act is now," said Amy Tarkowski, a first-grade teacher at Franklin with 21 years in the district, noting that resigning and being rehired under current rules would yield "a difference of $3,500 just this year." Jenny Hillwild, a special-education teacher at Mendota…
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