The Scarsdale Board of Education has approved a new multi-year contract for the District's educators. The contract talks started back in February. There will be no salary increases over the next two years of the three-year contract. During that time, there will also be no so-called step increases. A salary step is an incremental increase in salary based on an educator's previous professional experience. With step increases teachers earn more money the longer they are in a system.
In place of the salary increase for those two years will be a $1,250 stipend for the first year and a $1,750 stipend for year number two. In the third year of the contract, teachers will get a .5 percent salary increase in 2015. Then in 2016, they will get another .5 percent increase.
The teachers' new contract also calls for a new healthcare payroll increase during the second and third years of the contract. The increase will be a 7 percent contribution.
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