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NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION
– Teachers who are in the process of fulfilling the requirements for
National Board Certification will be allowed three (3) release days
per year. The School Committee further agrees that it will compensate
each teacher for the required application fee.
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CLASSROOM
MONEY
Teachers will collect monies
only for individual classroom activities. Teachers will collect
money only in a sealed envelope or check from, checks to be made payable
only to the school, P.T.O. or other organization, and not to the individual
teacher.
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SALARIES
AND INCREMENTS
Individual salaries
shall be divided into twenty-six (26) pay periods. Checks will
be mailed to the homes of the teachers during periods when school is
not in session.
Teachers shall be given
the option of the following two (2) pay methods:
Regular two-week
period during the school year with a lump sum for summer pay to be paid
in June, if notified by June 1.
26 pays at two-week
intervals.
At the time of hire,
new teachers will be informed of the anticipated date of their first
paycheck.
Increments as set
forth in the salary schedule are effective September 1 annually.
Teachers who are
in service one hundred (100) or more teaching days in any school year,
including sick leave, if granted by the School Committee for the teacher,
shall be granted the earned increment and any special increase in accordance
with the established requirements relating thereto.
A teacher will proceed
from minimum to maximum by earned increments.
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Reserved
for Future Use
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LONGEVITY
Longevity schedule
is as follows:
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
Max plus
1 year
852
886
917
End 20th
1320
1373
1421
End 25th
1530
1591
1647
End 30th
1733
1802
1865
End 35th
1833
1906
1973
Longevity is to be based upon
years of current employment, permanent or temporary, in the Agawam School
system, except that authorized leave of absence shall not constitute
a break in current employment but shall not be credited for longevity
pay.
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DEDUCTIONS
The Committee agrees that whenever
duly authorized by any teacher on a form or forms approved by the Committee,
and provided that accounting equipment is available, payroll deductions
on behalf of such teacher shall be made every pay day and paid over
in accordance with such form or forms for any or all of the following
purposes:
Association dues.
Premiums under Agawam
Employee’s Group Insurance.
Payments to the
Agawam Federal Credit Union and MTA Credit Union for premiums under
any annuity contract purchased for the teacher by the Committee.
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