Teacher Salaries in Warren County
Base salary is only one factor used in calculating a teacher’s pay. Experience and education levels also are factored into individual wages.
Little Miami adopted an alternative schedule for teachers hired after July 1, 2007. All but Mason, Franklin and Waynesville had frozen step increases for teachers during the past two years. Mason froze step increases last year. Waynesville paid teachers a $500 stipend in lieu of a base-pay increase last year.
Starting Salaries 2012-2013
Mason $38,331
Kings $38,240
Little Miami $36,694
Franklin $36,433
Lebanon $35,668
Carlisle $35,103
Waynesville $34,986
Springboro $34,563
Source: Ohio Education Association
The Springboro teachers union and school board have reached a tentative agreement after three months of contentious contract talks.
Neither side would share details Friday, pending votes next week.
“We’ll be voting on it Monday and the board is expected t0 vote on it Tuesday,” Marla Bell, the local union’s consultant from the Ohio Education Association, said Friday.
The agreement comes from a recommendation by a mediator of the negotiations. The negotiations started in April and produced three unfair labor practice complaints and board meetings featuring heated exchange between residents and board members.
Bell said the Springboro Education Association received word late Thursday that the school board had accepted the mediator’s recommendation.
On Thursday night , Board President Kelly Kohls ordered two residents to leave the board meeting during discussions involving the teachers and other controversies that have brought the board national attention. The board then adjourned into an executive session involving the contract negotiations but emerged without comment or action on the teachers' contract.
Since 2007, starting salaries in the district have dropped from fifth to last among the eight districts in Warren County, according to data released by both sides.
The latest teachers’ contract expired on June 30.
On Thursday, the board approved a four-year contract with the Springboro Classified Employees Association under which workers will receive $1,000 stipends ands step raises over each of the next three years. The classified workers agreed to pay another 5 percent of health care premiums, increasing their share to 20 percent.
The contract also includes clauses guaranteeing the classified workers any raises or added compensation granted to the teachers and advising that a medical excuse would be needed by any classified employees calling in sick during a teachers’ strike.
The board had been working for similar agreements with the two unions.
“Our hope is that we can have similar news about our teacher union negotiations in the near future,” Kohls said in a June 28 press release about the tentative agreement with the classified workers.
Both sides were prepared for a strike if negotiations broke down.
Leslie Marsh, who was ejected Thursday during comments about the teachers’ contract, said a settlement would be better for the community than a strike.
“I’m just really hopeful it is fair and reasonable for our teachers,” Marsh said. “That’s going to be so much better for the school district. It’s best for our students.”
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