Tuesday MM

Good Morning!

I trust you all had a learning experience at day two of our CCES training.  I am looking forward to no snow days and getting the February 20th RC day of training to finish up  the initial 18 hours. 

I have a meeting today with Dr. Morrison, David Snapp and Steve Oates to determine our next step for the magnet process.  We have 74 kindergarten applicants!  Each of you should be PROUD that we can attract families based on our first year of implementation of the STEM and EIE.  Families can see that we are growing in our delivery of curriculum and always put children's needs first. 

Here is a recent communication I received about the pay issue for August

1. Teacher Payment Changes – The following item appeared in the Jan. 13 Teachers’ Biweekly Message: The new year brings a number of changes in North Carolina law, some involving public schools. One significant change for teachers is the law change that ended the option of paying teachers an entire month’s pay in the August paycheck. Instead, as you know, local education agencies are required to pay only for time actually worked. This means the August paycheck for most teachers will be a fraction of what they are used to seeing. On the other end of the year, teachers will be receiving a check in June for time worked in that month. Most teachers are not used to receiving a check in June. The exception to this is teachers who work 11 or 12 months.

Several groups, including the State Board of Education, NC Department of Public Instruction, NC School Boards Association, NC Association of School Administrators and NC Association of Educators requested some technical corrections in the new law, but these were not made. So, for now, the only compliant option is to provide partial payment at the end of August (for days worked in August only) and full payment at the end of September (for all days worked in September).

The new legal requirements do not allow the delay of teachers’ first payment until the end of September and will not result in any change in pay rates or annual amount of pay for teachers.

SIT meeting Wednesday to review our Goals and the data associated.  We have Blue Diamond and will delve into that while we await the MOY DIBELS for the next SIT meeting.