Geneva School District 304 is still putting together the ratified three-year teachers contract. In the meantime, the summary of the contract is posted prominently on the district's newly redesigned homepage.
School Board President Mark Grosso said a few weeks ago that he expected the new three-year teachers contract to be published on the School District website by the end of the month of November, but as of Monday, Dec. 3, it's still in the works.
"Unfortunately, it is not yet ready to be posted, but our Human Resources Department is working very hard to complete it as soon as possible," School Distirct 304 Communications Coordinator Kelley Munch said in an e-mail Monday.
The Geneva Education Association ratified the agreement in a vote on Nov. 14, and the School Board ratified the agreement on Nov. 20. A strike was averted during an 11th-hour negotiation session in the wee hours of Monday, Nov. 12.
The summary of the new three-year contract is on the School District 304 website and is prominently displayed on School District 304's newly redesigned homepage.
The previous three-year agreement is a 56-page document that goes into greater detail and is still published on the website. That contract is for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years.
The new contract differs from the previous one in several ways. It calls for a salary freeze for 2012-13, then step increases of 2.65 percent and 2.85 percent in the following two years. It offers retirement incentives that include salary increases of 6 percent, 3 percent and 2.48 percent for teachers who announce retirement prior to Jan. 15, 2013, and intend to retire at the end of 2014-15.
It also has different parameters for education-related salary advancement, sometimes called "lane" increases, and calls for the establishment of a Salary Schedule Study Group, made up of board members, administrators and teachers.
Some of the additional issues, which were expected to be fleshed out in the final document include:
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