Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann issued the following statement.
Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann and Senate Education Chairman Dennis DeBar are proposing a $210 million investment in teachers over the next two years, raising a teacher’s base pay on average by $4,700.
“Chairman DeBar traveled all over the state in the fall for teacher listening sessions, held a committee hearing, and met with teachers in other small-group settings. This plan was devised using the input our teachers on the ground and in our classrooms provided,” Hosemann said.
Under the proposal, a Class A teacher with a baccalaureate degree would start at $40,000. Teachers would $500 receive step increases at most every year, including in the first three years of teaching. Step increases are not currently provided until the third year of teaching, though many leave the profession before Year 5.
At the pivotal five-year marks in a teacher’s career up to Year 25, teachers would receive a larger increase based on their certification. Class A teachers (baccalaureate) would receive $1,325; Class AA teachers (master’s degree) would receive $1,425; Class AAA (specialist) would receive $1,525; and Class AAAA (doctoral) would receive $1,625.
“The current salary schedule results in backloading pay and this makes it difficult for us to ever be competitive with our surrounding states,” DeBar said. “This structure, the pieces of which were recommended by Mississippi classroom teachers, will result in a more equitable distribution across a teacher’s career and higher salaries in mid years when it is likely a teacher has a family to consider.”
The base salary schedule does not include any local supplements teachers receive or state supplements, like extra compensation to locate in certain critical needs areas or become a National Board Certified Teacher. The implementation of this proposal would mean teachers would receive an average pay raise of about $5,700 over three years, including the $1,000 raise provided by the Legislature last year.
“The Senate has been a leader in championing this issue because we know our future rests on our children. The best workforce development plan is a good education. The teaching profession is critical to our success and prosperity as a State,” Hosemann said.
For more information about Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann, visit www.ltgovhosemann.ms.gov.
56 comments:
Why doesn’t the local tax(school) district set the pay? Truly a way to improve things.
Delbert, where's my pot?
So roughly 400 a month that will be eaten by taxes. Something I gotta ask, lottery not doing the trick or something ? How does Ar-kansas manage to pay their teachers so well without one ?
and cut the income tax without any tax raises elsewhere. yippee! free money all around! just like in washington DC!
And we should cut the state income tax to pay for it.
Teachers make plenty. If the Lt. Gov is trying to buy future votes, send that $4500USD to cops, medics and fireman. Those three groups actually deserve a raise.
$4,700.00 will not come close to paying the cost increases caused by inflation created over the last 12 months.
Step right up, Opey, watch the three shells. Remember where the pea was when you dropped your quarter. Now, pay attention and watch closely as we move the shells and you know where that pea is so drop one more quarter. But, sadly, Andy ain't comin' to run this carnival out of town.
I live a few houses down from Delbert in NE Jackson and I see where Jackson is lobbying the state to pay for sewer upgrades and repairs. Funny how they want the states help until the state asks for a say so in the funding use
Much like the airport situation on that land deal. Jackson wanted to be in charge of the board completely and wanted no one else to have a nominee to board. Well if that’s the case tell lumumba to go fly a kite!!!
How about we base teacher's pay on how they do their job? It is understandable we are in last place as far as teacher pay. How do our students do up against the students in other states? Some state has to be last place in teacher pay. If our students are in last place teacher pay is where it should be.
somebody appears to be gearing up for a run at governor
@3:02pm "$4,700.00 will not come close to paying the cost increases caused by inflation created over the last 12 months."
Sounds like you have plenty of pot at your disposal - and if you know Delbert, he's about as full of shit as they come. You're out of your damn mind about "inflation". Schools are making out like BANDITS because enrollment is plummeting and will continue to with the way people are leaving the state, and the MDE just got $1.3 BILLION in federal bailout money which they don't really even need! They're talking about starting programs that never even existed just to spend the money!
Teachers would like more money, but they'd rather be allowed to actually teach and be respected. The only real inflation continues to be in administrative positions...and higher ed is far worse.
@2:22
School districts are free to add local supplements and therefore set the salaries for their respective district.
The $4700 will raise the southeastern average for teachers, so we will then have to provide another raise to get to the average, which again will raise the southeastern average. It is never ending. Let taxpayers use those dollars that are designated for education to pay tuition to any school they choose to send their children. The public schools are a failure and giving more money does nothing to solve the problems.
2:54 . . .
I agree with you that first responders should be given raises with all the crap they are putting up with. HOWEVER. . .
A $400.00 per month pay raise is a good start but is not "plenty". Try teaching on the paltry salary and have to put your own money into the classroom too. Our kids and teachers deserve better.
All that COVID CON money spent yet ? Come on Kingfish. Post something about the 75 % the CDC put out. I know you are a vax freak but still.........
Mississippi's public schools are taxpayer funded babysitting and feeding subsidy programs for the benefit of Wal Mart, Amazon, et al. Nothing more.
Genius posted: "send that $4500USD to cops, medics and fireman. Those three groups actually deserve a raise."
Hello Genius: State government has nothing to do with municipal or private sector pay.
Adding this much to the budget while cutting 32% of our revenue at the same time... Sh!t Tate, this ain't even good Voo-Doo economics.
More pissing down your leg, Dilbert going at it along for now, but a least one of the other two will have their own proposal before you know it
Is there an adjustment to PERS?
No raises unless the retirement debacle is fixed
“The $4700 will raise the southeastern average for teachers, so we will then have to provide another raise to get to the average, which again will raise the southeastern average. It is never ending.”
This is true when you’re dead last or next to dead last. This generally isn’t true when you’re above the 50th percentile.
Maybe teachers could send an annual letter home to parents...like Kingfish does when 'it's time to contribute to the Blog-site'.
Gotta love it when the dumbest state in the union sees no utility in its public education system. Teachers don’t make enough in this state as is, much less without a raise. And 2:54 is a complete dumbass. First responders and their stupid unions (socialists!) are the most overhyped work force in the US today
Hey 4:15 they’re drinking it now, they like it so much they think it’s a cure.
3:23 PM Delbert will be a great governor.
Mississippi needs top clib a moutain to catch up with Arkansaw.
The thing mostpeople in Mississippi do't thi about is That Arkansas has two things Mississippi doesn't.
The Huckabee and the Duggar clans.
Good luck matching whatever Tate and Delbert can get done with the Huckabees and Duggars!
The State has given 8,000 dollars in raises to teachers in the past 4 sessions . Add this one in on the 5th Session and there shouldn’t be anymore complaints.
Not enough. Our teachers are grossly underpaid.
3:54 must have firsthand experience. You mad because they won’t raise minimum wage, so you blame the school.
How many other working people will get a big raise when they do a piss poor job? Pay raises are given for doing a good job. That and for relatives. If teachers want a pay raise they should do a better job.
6:23. Bullshit. Show me.
No matter what teachers are paid, the good ones will not live and teach in most towns and cities west of I-55.
557 - evidently you either (1) work for Dilbert; (2) wear wool over your eyes constantly; or (3) have no idea about which you speak.
Maybe all three - certainly possible.
4:15 - need to catch up. Tate recommended a pay raise a few months ago when he presented his proposed budget.
Delbert is just wanting to call his (pay)raise, and raise it, being one who never wants to be outdone.
@3:13p- You’ve obviously never spent a day teaching a classroom of disrespectful children who have even more disrespectful parents at home paired with an administration hellbent on catering to parents.
You’ve obviously never had YOUR pay tied to the performance of children who are sent to the classroom with an unbelievable amount of baggage thanks to poor choices by their parents. Poor test scores do NOT mean the teacher didn’t do their job. Teachers are steamrolled with objectives that force them to progress as if a student has mastered a skill based on answering a single test question correctly. The reality is answering a question correctly does not demonstrate mastery of any skill. The focus is no longer on learning. The focus is on how many questions the students can answer correctly so the data meets the administration’s goals.
I believe that MS teachers desperately deserve raises, but raises WILL NOT fix retention problems. I personally know about a dozen teachers leaving the profession this year. It has NOTHING to do with money. It has EVERYTHING to do with children being behind due to remote learning, parents who expect teachers to fix their kids with no support from home, and administrators who are screaming for higher performance.
For a 35 year old teacher, we are $8300 behind the Southeastern average.
@9:33pm Yep, you nailed it. Regardless of pay, the two most undesirable jobs in MS are: K-12 teachers and Correctional Officers. Both systems will implode in the not-so-distant future due to lack of personnel regardless of how much money you throw at the problem.
It's administrative BS artists that get paid, no one else. But no one talks about it or you get the axe.
If you want more pay get another job and quit shaking us down for your poor decision.
4:30 said: First responders and their stupid unions (socialists!) are the most overhyped work force in the US today
Where are these unions of which you speak? Color me ignorant, but I'm unaware of 'first responder socialist unions' in Mississippi.
It's beyond plumb damned dumb to keep suggesting that teacher pay should somehow be tied to the proper raising of children who have, in many cases, zero home training, zero parental involvement in the education process and zero concern for the academic and vocational enlightenment of their children.
And, take the state employees who attempt to find jobs for the unemployed...It would be just as wrong to suggest their pay be tied to the number of the unemployed who want to and intend to find work.
You can put a turnip in the blood-mobile, but you can't make him produce. Or something like that.
"If you want more pay get another job and quit shaking us down for your poor decision. January 11, 2022 at 8:37 AM"
So, let me see if I understand. You're suggesting those who can (the well qualified teachers) should just throw up their hands and leave the profession. Leaving only those who can't?
Either you have no children in the public education system or you see no benefit to having a professionally staffed system with competent, caring, career employees.
I'm wondering if you feel the same way about occupations such as nursing, law enforcement and ambulance workers. Hell..just quit and find something else and we'll survive with the ones who are left. Right?
@8:04, you have it backwards. Teacher salaries have to be high enough to attract and retain great teachers. As with most things, you get what you pay for.
@838 Police, firefighters, EMTs etc are the most unionized groups in this country. Yeah it's not called "first responders socialist union" but they're out there. Try a simple google search next time. And yeah those unions are more "socialist" than anything else Fox News laments about.
And I'm tired of the over glorification of first responders. It's pathetic. Most of them are first responders bc they can't do anything else or have no other industry in their community. Most of them can't be teachers bc they don't have college degrees. Hence why they should shut up and let the teachers get their pay raise.
First repsonders and football players are the most admired groups in Mississippi, and that's not something to brag about.
Does anyone here think that more MS funds should be used for improved vocational education?
Teachers should be paid based on performance. The better the students do the better the pay. The worse the students do the lower the pay is. Simple as that.
I have nothing wrong with teachers getting a raise, but money is finite here. Teachers have received multiple raises over the last few years because they are politically popular. Maybe we should give raises to government employees who are also necessary but even more underpaid (social workers, teacher assistants, etc.). Before we even do that, however, the state should adopt a bonus program for any law enforcement officer serving in a high crime area. We need more cops in those areas, not less.
LEO's may be paid locally, but the state should supplement that for some areas. The state should also investigate law enforcement corruption a little more in those areas too.
@9:53a- See @9:33p’s comment.
If you truly believe what you typed, you are beyond clueless.
Its been a perpetual merry-go-round for years with "bump up the teacher pay to increase the educational outcome in the state and therefore increase wages and tax revenue which will then pay for the teacher pay raises.
So far that hasn't come true at all. Districts manipulate their standards to get a graduation rate they want while Mississippi students still test on the low end of achievement tests. Those that do well tend to move out of state because Mississippi wages are not rising.
I don't know what the solution is, but the idea that raising teacher pay is a guaranteed way to bring the state as a whole up to national competitiveness is not working.
@9:53a - so if YOUR precious little angel sits on his butt all day, doesn't do his homework, cares about nothing but his phone and some sport he'll never make a living at, the teacher's pay should suffer. Yeah that's brilliant. I think we've found the problem.
@10:08am Thanks for the colorful comment daddy.
I don't object to paying quality teachers.
And while I do think we should reward good teachers, Having a friend in JPS that tries so hard to help her kids...I can also say that she should not be penalized by the baby-momma-farms filled with feral children that refuse to even behave, much less learn.
And do we really think any of these districts would actually remove the factually crappy teachers to hire these (now incentivized with higher salaries) amazing teachers?
Every little fiefdom in MS is chock full of bloated admin roles based solely on nepotism or favoritism.
Maybe we retain a few teachers that were ready to quit with this and that makes me happy, but money is not going to fix our messed up educational system unless they trim admin fat and end the employment scams that are bleeding the existing funding dry.
I see there are those that no amount of increase will ever be good enough! The sad reality is; this teacher only pay raise drum has been beaten long enough. The facts are, firefighters, law enforcement, among other all need raises.
What I find would be most helpful, simply reduce the amount of public leaches working in this state along with the unnecessary public spending.
Eliminate the State Income Tax, reduce sales tax, and drive jobs expansion..
All forms of government should be required to reprioritize spending, and for gosh sake, term limits....
Anonymous said...
So roughly 400 a month that will be eaten by taxes. Something I gotta ask, lottery not doing the trick or something ? How does Ar-kansas manage to pay their teachers so well without one ?
Um, excuse me - without what 😳
https://www.myarkansaslottery.com/
Teachers are expected to perform miracles with students that don’t have reinforcement in the home setting. Students are performing several years below grade level based primarily on low attendance over the years. If the parent/guardian doesn’t see the value of education then they aren’t reinforcing it in the home setting. Perhaps instead of handing out benefits to parents utilizing proof of enrollment once a year, there needs to be an attendance, behavior and performance component tied to it. Many of these students miss the majority of each school year…how do you honestly expect a teacher to make significant gains under these circumstances. Please don’t say special education because they are failing those courses as well.
The comment related to increasing salaries for law enforcement is valid but teachers need to be in that increase as well. During school hours these are the students that teachers encounter. The difference is the teacher doesn’t have the authority to enforce the law and school enforcement basically states that in order for them to deal with them it has to be a chargeable offense. So, teachers are left to deal with being threatened (physically/verbally) by students and their parents. To plead with students to complete assignments and/remain on task while trying to deal with unruly students. Please don’t say send them to the office because they are sent back to the classroom the majority of the time. Parents don’t agree that their disruptive students needs to miss class time.
Several years ago a local district came under fire and was recommended for a takeover. One of the observations was money being available but the district was categorized as being top heavy. During the hearing the interim Superintendent discussed a plan to implement Area Superintendents and decrease the number of Director titles/positions. Fast forward to present day there are no more titles of area Superintendents but there are an increased number the following titles: Superintendents (Asst./Deputy), Executive Directors, Directors, Leads and a new addition of Managers. Perhaps the shortage of teachers along with properly allocated salaries could be achieved within a district that wasn’t overpopulated with titles/salaries that are payed to meet to meet on the work being pushed down to the school level to complete. How many of these upper salary individuals does it really take to pass the word down to the classroom?
My hats off to all professionals that are underpaid, under appreciated and overworked.
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