Nevada teachers to get 2 percent raise

Thursday, May 9, 2013

By Ralph Pokorny

The Nevada R-5 Board of Education on Wednesday unanimously approved to raise the base pay for teachers from the current $34,250 to $35,000, an increase of $750 or about 2 percent.

The base pay is what the district will pay a new graduate with a bachelor's degree and no teaching experience. Nevada R-5 Superintendent Dr. David Stephens told the board that he has already included this pay increase in his preliminary 2014 budget.

Stephens told the board that when Nevada's starting pay for teachers is compared to that at 24 other area schools, Nevada is number 10 on that list. Based on size he said Nevada ranks 21 on that list.

The pay increase will also bump up the pay for more experienced teachers based on their years of teaching and their education level.

The board also accepted the low bid of $215,685 from Mid-State to replace some of the bleachers in Wynn Gymnasium. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Tyson Beshore told the board that the company will not be able to replace the bleachers over the summer as the district had hoped, because it already had other work scheduled. The current plan calls for the company to order the bleachers in the next week and begin work on installing them in October, after the last home volleyball game, and complete the project before the start of basketball season.

The board also voted unanimously to approve an addendum for summer school food service meal rates. It will cost the district $2.30 per meal during summer school and the district will be reimbursed $2.89 per meal.

This will allow the district to provide free lunches at the middle school and the elementary schools because those buildings all had over 50 percent of students eligible for free and reduced price lunches in October 2012.

Because the high school had a lower percentage of students eligible for free and reduced lunches the district would not be reimbursed at level, so the district will not serve lunch at the high school during summer school. Stephens said that most summer school students at the high school did not eat lunch there.

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But what type of pay increase did the administrators get? I noticed that part was conveniently left out of the board meeting. With McKinley being forced out of his A/D position due to bringing that up to fellow teachers, would be nice to know the truth behind this since it is, supposedly, "public knowledge" anyway. I realize we have to be competitive on wages to compete with other school districts but a 2% pay raise to the people actually working with our kids? While rumors of $16k pay increases for administration are floating around? Hmmmm, once again, those are the rumors going around. Would be nice to see the actual facts. But like all other political things regarding the school district, i expect that to get swept under the rug.

-- Posted by electronic77 on Thu, May 9, 2013, at 8:16 AM
I just Googled Nevada R-5 Superintendent and the name and was shocked to see his salary from last year. And our teachers are making only $35,000 range. I'm embarrassed for the School District. Shame on them.

-- Posted by electronic77 on Thu, May 9, 2013, at 7:42 PM
Let's see if they get that kind of increase in the years to come. This is the first one in several years all due to a certain someone, too bad he was forced out for making a stand and bringing this sad situation to light, glad the paper told his side. What was left out in the article is that a beginning non-experienced teacher will receive a top area salary, which only includes a handful of teachers in the R-5. The article says it will bump up experienced teachers but it doesn't say that the bump for most in that range are looking at a $100 raise per year for their experience. The teachers with many years are the ones leading curriculum chairs, the ones asked to facilitate meetings, they are the ones administration relies on to model teaching practices to new teachers but they aren't the ones who benefit from this so called increase in base. The increase in base pay is just a brag to make the district look like they're doing something wonderful for all teachers but in reality it is only helping a handful of teachers and the R-5 has more than a handful of teachers working with our children. Let's be real people and quit putting our head in the sand. Ask questions to those who are elected to represent our schools, get proof in hand. We better ask because our teachers can't, we've seen first hand what happens when they try! For our children's sake, we can't afford to lose experienced teachers in the classroom to districts who are willing to pay for their expertise.

-- Posted by wootwoot on Thu, May 9, 2013, at 9:35 PM
You can see the salaries of all missouri teachers and administration on this website http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/stl-info/missouri-educators-salaries/html_394... Not sure when they updated it, so it may not show the increase, but it will when it updates.

-- Posted by anabullinger on Fri, May 10, 2013, at 8:30 AM
Great site anabullinger. Thank you.

-- Posted by ccmom on Fri, May 10, 2013, at 10:24 AM
Golly Gee a whole 750 dollars a year raise after not getting anything for over 3 years! If I was a teacher this would feel like a slap in the face to me. Lets get this right the superintindant gets more than 10,000 dollars in raises in two years, not including the money he receives for a car, and the teachers get 750. Why has the school board not been at fault for this they are the ones approving all these raises.

-- Posted by proudtiger on Mon, May 13, 2013, at 4:58 AM
This is base pay for teachers with no prior experience or new hires with some experience. What about the teachers who have been here, what do they get for an increase. What about performance based pay increases?? Surly, with all that administration, we have someone qualified to evaulate the teachers and increase their pay based on how well they do their job.

-- Posted by ccmom on Mon, May 13, 2013, at 10:02 AM
Mr. McKinley has no reason to lie about the series of events. As a matter of fact, he spoke out to stand by the salary information that he supplied to other employees of the district. There must be merit in his words or he wouldn't have gotten the reaction that he did. Also, I see that it wasn't mentioned that teachers' health insurance deductibles increased by $1000 so actually the $750 raise is in reality a pittance. This is what happens when a person in power surrounds himself with a majority of young "yes" people.

-- Posted by mizzou82 on Mon, May 13, 2013, at 7:20 PM

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