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Lakeland trustees review removing 'shadow' salary schedule, ask staff for three-column pay models
Summary
At a board workshop, trustees and staff reviewed a draft negotiated agreement that proposed removing a district 'shadow' salary schedule, examined three pay models (BA, BA+24, MA), and discussed health‑insurance and benefit-cost pressures; staff will return with a reconciled salary schedule and data at a follow-up meeting.
Trustees of the Lakeland Joint School District met in workshop to review a draft negotiated agreement that would govern certificated professional employees and to consider several alternatives for the district’s teacher salary schedule.
The chair opened the meeting and led trustees through the document’s preamble and recognition language, which identifies the Lakeland Education Association as the exclusive representative for certificated professional employees while excluding administrative and classified staff from the negotiated‑agreement bargaining unit. Trustees requested that staff confirm membership counts; the draft displayed inconsistent figures (trustees discussed both 290 and 287 total certified teachers and an active count near 178), and staff agreed to verify the correct numbers before the agreement is finalized.
A central focus was the district’s so‑called “shadow” schedule, a mechanism staff said was previously used to fold AP stipends into base pay for a subset of longer‑tenured employees. Staff presented two main options modeled for trustees: (1) a lane or career‑ladder‑aligned schedule…
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