Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Senate unanimously advanced a $230 million teacher pay raise plan with bipartisan support today. This is the third time senators have sent legislation proposing a significant raise for teachers to the House for consideration during the 2022 Legislative Session.
“The future of Mississippi is in our children and those who educate them,” Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann said. “Giving teachers a raise continues to be a priority for the Senate.”
Under the legislation, teachers would receive a $4,800 raise on average through the base pay salary schedule after a two-year phase in. Class A, baccalaureate-degreed teachers would start at $40,000. All teachers would also receive $500 step increases at most every year, including in the first three years of teaching. Step increases are not provided in the current salary schedule until the third year of teaching, though many leave the profession before Year 5.
At Years 5, 10, 15, and 20, 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. At 25 years of service, teachers would receive an increase of $2,500.
Teacher assistants would receive a $2,000 raise under the bill.
“We held listening sessions during the fall at which teachers provided us with their concerns and recommendations,” Senate Education Chairman Dennis DeBar said. “This plan was developed for teachers by teachers.”
The base salary schedule does not include any local supplements teachers receive or state supplements, like extra compensation to locate in critical needs areas or become a National Board Certified Teacher.
For more information about Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann, visit www.ltgovhosemann.ms.gov.
27 comments:
"This is the third time...."
Reckon that gun is aimed at the Speakah?
Burp.
I’m excited about all the young new scholars this will create. /s
We are now in playground fight mode. Gilbert calls Philip a dirty word. Philip calls Gilbert a dirty word. Their respective groupies taunt and egg on. Meanwhile, really transformative legislation is stuck in no man's land waiting for the piss and vinegar to subside.
Don't get what is going on here since the House plan pays teachers more than the Senate plan and raises that pay immediately. Yet there is Nancy Lunatic on the news praising the lesser paying Senate plan.
But I thought............
Ah-choo!
Since neither Delbert or Phillip wants the other to get the credit for a teacher pay raise, it will be knocked down in conference committee to around $1,000 for this year and next year. That way they both can brag to the Rotary Club about how much they care about education.
looool try talking to someone of school age these days and you will see that it doesn’t matter what you pay these teachers. We are doomed!
Didn't we give them a pay raise last legislative session?
I caught the House Ed Chair on Gallo this morning and based on all the hoopla I heard about, expected some monumental difference between the two bills, but there wasn't. I think some egos must be at play here.
9:56 : Teachers are parents to. So I agree 100 % with you that a short talk with many kids these days will give you chills. Many parents out there are as bad as our parents were but the difference is Bugs Bunny as a baby sitter was way smarter than TicTok.
We ain't got long..
Why aren't teachers demanding the House plan? Pays them the most the fastest.
8:19
You nailed it with the “Lunatic” ! If only the teachers that pay her salary knew how much she makes!!
@11:39 Teachers pay the woman's salary you & @8:19 are talking about?
If only the teachers that pay her salary knew how much she makes!!<
~$112,000 in TY 2019 inclusive of monies Parent's Campaign head Nancy Loome paid Registered Lobbyist Nancy Loome to lobby on behalf of the, you guessed it, Parent's Campaign.
Loome is basically just another anti-GOP front of the Barksdalers. Like Mississippi Today.
She loves her some Delbert Hosemann because he's an old RINO and the Donkeycrats, in general, are confident that he can be rolled.
Teachers only pay Nancy Loome's salary should they donate to the Parents' Campaign.
Where's Kingfish and the 'haircut' guy on this...assuming they aren't the same person? Imagine the dent this will cause in PERS. The system will flounder into eternity and beyond, for God's sake!
Holy Shit...Teachers with 35 years will be retiring at a pension approaching 40k. (nowhere near that of a 35 year, 12th grade completer in a manufacturing job covered by 401K and company pension in this state). At least that teacher will no longer have to leave school to go to her second job.
@12:48 I thought lobbyists made a lot more than that.
12:48 : Testify !!!
Now the Southeastern average pay for teachers has gone up again, time for another raise to keep up. It never ends! Public schools keep on producing below average students and we continue to think more money is the answer.
On a separate subject but related to senate/house action...Somebody tell me why in hell both chambers wasted valuable time reaching agreement on something as useless and unneeded as 'Equal Pay'.
The Federal Equal Pay Act has been law in this nation since 1963. Next year marks sixty years since it has been a violation of federal law for workers to be paid differently for equal work based on sex.
I challenge anybody to give examples of workers being paid inequitably for equal work with equal qualifications, experience and duties. If they are...the employer is already violating federal DOL Wage/Hour law.
Mississippi is the only state without a State Department of Labor. The Legislature is begging to have one implemented.
Don - here is an example of Equal Pay - the fired woman President at JSU vs. what the IHL paid the male President to replace her. I'll wait while you look it up. Eyeopening.
1:42 - There is no law, rule, policy or practice which guides the payment of administrative personnel at state institutions. There may, however, be a schedule of pay-steps, I don't know. I DO know that you can't simply compare the two people (you mentioned) by the fact that they both breathe the same air (which is what you seem to suggest).
When you can produce their resumes, notes taken during their series of interviews and the specific reasons noted (in both cases) concerning the job offers then we can entertain your suggestion of sex-discrimination. I'll wait while you gather that information and produce a valid argument showing that the two are equal in all respects.
What you're suggesting is in line with the now-popular view of 'equity'. I'm sure you know that means 'make everybody equal regardless of contributing factors such as a measure of productivity, accomplishment and value to the company (institution).
1:42 might also be on the slippery slope of suggesting the next and all subsequent State Education Superintendents (but only if male) should be paid as much as the current one, highest in the nation, or the state would be in violation of the so called 'equal pay act'.
I too wonder why the legislature wasted its time on such an unneeded bill. Or was it just another solution in search of a problem (which doesn't exist)?
@9:18 AM
Bless you.
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