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Salary & Benefits Schedule and Teacher Tenure Study

March 2015 update

Legislative mandate

HB278 Section 52 No later than June 15, 2015, the Department of Administration shall present to the legislature a written proposal for a salary and benefits schedule for school districts, including an evaluation of, and recommendations for, teacher tenure.

Study approach

• Salary & benefits schedule for teachers and principals
• Review current salary schedules & Profile current benefits
• Geographic & job differentials (e.g., hard to fill positions)
• Create salary & benefits schedule - step-and-lane (traditional)

model

• Investigate strengths and drawbacks of alternative models &

views of educators and stakeholders about these alternatives

• District profiles for other positions
• Describe the size & diversity of district personnel
• Describe range of superintendent duties
• Recommendations for teacher tenure
• Review of current structure, strengths & drawbacks
• Review of alternate models – strengths and drawbacks
• Gather views of educators and stakeholders about current

structure & alternatives

Where we are…

• Continuing to build a literature review
• Empirical studies, case law, other states’

policies, position papers

• Organized existing data into databases for

analyses & development of district profiles

• Collective bargaining agreements, job

descriptions

• Certified & classified staffing databases
• Statewide survey of teacher working conditions

Where we are…

• Collecting new data
• Conducted focus groups and interviews with members
• f stakeholder groups: teachers, principals,

superintendents, ALASBO

• Continuing focus groups and interviews (AK EED, AASB)
• Sending data requests to district
• Statewide surveys of administrators, teachers, school

board members, parents, school business officers, classified staff etc. launched this week

• Phone interviews with superintendents starting this

week

Next Steps: Data analysis for the salary and benefit schedules

• Calculate teacher and principal responses to

community and job characteristics

• Estimate job and community differentials
• Define labor market for Alaska teachers and principals

(and benchmark with national/competing markets)

• Using these factors in economic model to create salary

and benefit schedules

Next Steps: Data analysis & report preparation for the salary and benefit schedules and tenure study

• Summarize stakeholder perspectives from focus

groups, interviews and statewide surveys

• Contextualize the quantitative data with the

perspectives data

• Produce draft report for stakeholder & public

comment

• Produce final report by June 15
• Actions and follow-up are the purview of Alaska State

Legislature & Governor

For more information

Department of Administration website: http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/HB278SchoolStudy/ CAEPR website: www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/CAEPR/ Email: TeacherSalaryTenure@uaa.alaska.edu Contact the research team: Diane Hirshberg dbhirshberg@alaska.edu 907-786-5413 Alexandra Hill arhill@uaa.alaska.edu 907-786-5436 Dayna Jean DeFeo djdefeo@uaa.alaska.edu 907-786-5494