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Thats not true substitutes can be paid anything the
district feels they are worth whether they are certified or
not. Its CONTRACT employees who must be offered the same
salary scale, and even then the only requirement is that
districts and schools offer the state minimum, and that
classes of teachers be treated equally. This is why Sp.Ed
and math/science teachers have been offered stipends in the
past, and nothing would prohibit a district from paying an
art teacher or P.E. teacher the state minimum and a math
teacher the state minimum, plus a $20K stipend. As long as
all Math teachers were offered the same stipend it would be
legal.

Bonuses arent illegal, but I only know one district (and
its a Charter) that gives large payout bonuses.

On 5/16/15, Payscale differ wrote:
> Payscales vary for subs and long-term subs in different
> districts. But teachers who ARE certified have to be paid
> the same level -, no matter what district / position
> you're in per Texas law. Schools with difficulties in
> filling hard to fill positions most likely will hire
> uncertified and not-yet certified teachers as short and
> long-term (year-long) with a promise of large sum payoff
> at end of contract as if they're certified teachers. This
> is a way of keeping contracts 'money attractive' to
> applicants instead of searching and paying already
> certfified teachers $40K annually at year zero.
>
> On 5/14/15, anon wrote:
>>
>> Rules about supply and demand do NOT apply in public
> employment
>> because they are non-profits.
>>
>> It would be highly unfair to pay somebody more money
> because
>> they are math or science teachers than kindergarten,
>> which is a LOT harder work and which helps lay the
>> groundwork for future academic success.
>>
>> The ONLY fair compensation in the public sector is in
the
>> step system.
>>
>> Your post is idiotic on its face.
>>
>> On 5/13/15, 27K No Way! wrote:
>>> There is a shortage of teachers in some fields that are
>>> willing to work for low teacher pay, like Spanish
>>> speaking ELL, STEM, sped... the list is pretty well
>>> known and it is similar around the country. These
>>> "shortages" would be cleared up if they raised the pay
>>> for these fields.
>>>
>>> Texas doesn't have collective bargaining for teachers,
>>> but it still makes the same mistake collective
>>> bargaining states make in simply having one salary for
>>> all teachers. Yes, some of it is based upon
performance,
>>> but there is no recognition of the fact that there are
>>> sub-sets of teachers that have a very different labor
>>> market. There is simply a lack of intelligence when it
>>> comes to understanding supply and demand. A
>>> Spanish-speaking, HS Math teacher has a lot of other
>>> career options than a regular old elementary teacher.
>>> Not to say the elem teacher doesn't work hard, but hard
>>> work is not (typically) what results in higher pay in a
>>> free market...
>>>
>>> If the supply of teachers outstrips demand for their
>>> labor, then you must increase the supply by attracting
>>> more people into the field on a macro-level. That
>>> Spanish-speaking Math teacher, who has other options
in,
>>> say: IT or engineering, might then be attracted to the
>>> field. The general ed elementary teacher... probably
>>> doesn't have that skill set and therefore their labor
is
>>> not as scarce.
>>>
>>> On a micro-level, an individual district should
increase
>>> it's pay for the type of teacher that is in short
supply
>>> to attract what supply of labor does exist. A district
>>> superintendent at one ISD probably can't affect change
>>> that will bring more Math or Sped teachers into the
>>> overall labor pool, but they can pay more to attract
the
>>> scarce labor to their classrooms. The problem is that
>>> they don't think about teachers in sub-sets. They think
>>> think they need to pay a "shortage" area teacher the
>>> same as a non-shortage area teacher, which makes pay
>>> increases insufficient to attract people in the
shortage
>>> fields. You don't need to pay a gym teacher more...,
>>> there are already a hundred applicants for every
>>> position, but you might need to pay a STEM or sped
>>> teacher more because those classrooms could go
unfilled.
>>>
>>> Regardless: I wouldn't teach any subject for 27K per
>>> year.
>>>
>>> On 5/01/15, PsyGuy wrote:
>>>> The presentation that there is a shortage of teachers
>>>> is a myth, there are a lot of teachers that will
accept
>>>> any job that pays more than substituting (which at $80
>>>> a day for 150 days is $12,000).
>>>>
>>>> On 4/24/15, 27k BS wrote:
>>>>> 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/M
>>>>>> inimum _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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