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District leaders warn recalibration’s salary and insurance changes could undercut retention and recruitment
Summary
Administrators said moving from a base-plus-multipliers salary model to an average-salary model and transferring health insurance to a state plan could remove incentives for experience/advanced degrees, reduce local recruitment flexibility and add retiree costs.
GOSHEN COUNTY, Wyo. — Goshen County school officials warned lawmakers that technical changes in the proposed recalibration — including shifting from base salary plus multipliers to an average salary calculation and moving benefits management to the state plan — could harm recruitment and remove incentives for experienced teachers.
Business managers said their current base salary model, with experience and education (steps and lanes) multipliers, let the district reward master’s-level…
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