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Sparta Area School District board approves 2.63% pay adjustment on actual wages, including steps and lanes
Summary
After extensive public comment and negotiations with the district’s union, the Sparta Area School District board approved a 2.63% salary increase applied to employees' actual wages and retained step/ lane movement; the board also approved certified staff contracts and sent longer-term compensation changes to a committee.
The Sparta Area School District Board voted to give certified staff a 2.63% salary increase applied to actual wages and to preserve scheduled step and lane movement, the board announced after a roll-call vote.
The decision followed more than an hour of public comment in which teachers and union representatives urged the board to apply the cost-of-living adjustment to employees’ actual salaries rather than to the district’s defined “base wage.” Michelle Glant, identified in the meeting as president of the Sparta Education Association, told the board the district’s method “pretend[s] like each teacher only…
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