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27K is garbage pay and you'll attract garbage teachers at that
salary... if that. You could make more in a call center or cubical
farm without the BS involved with teaching.

On 4/21/15, PsyGuy wrote:
> 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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