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Well yes and no. It is likely that your district/school is
adapting the state minimum salary schedule which is $27,540 for
step 0, however the salary schedule does increase on average
about $500 per year of experience. You can find the state
minimum salary schedule here:

tea.texas.gov/Texas_Educators/Salary_and_Service_Record/Minimum
_Salary_Schedule/2014-2015_Minimum_Salary_Schedule/

Anything more than that is whats referred to as "local
supplemental" salary, which your district can change or
eliminate entirely.

As to why, there could be a number of reasons. First, is to
incentivise teachers to retire or resign, without going through
long and expensive grievance procedures. Second, is if your
district is implementing a "pay for performance" or "bonus"
salary program. You get the state minimum and depending on your
student pass (satisfactory) and commended (advanced) numbers
you get bonus pay, which may or may not exceed your
conventional salary. Third, your district may be experiencing a
financial or budgetary crises, perhaps they are anticipating a
loss of federal funding, etc. There could be a number of other
reasons.

On 4/18/15, Aeiou wrote:
> Can someone explain this?
> Does this apply to all current employed teachers? What are
> they doing to do? Drop my pay to 27,000 after I made 40,000
> a year?
> That is BS if so.....

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