Schools Superintendent Patricia Hamamoto said yesterday that retroactive pay cuts will not be imposed on the state's highest-paid substitute teachers after all. Wage cuts for substitute
teachers will not take effectHighest-paid teachers will earn
the same rate for the school yearBy Lisa Asato
lasato@starbulletin.comAccording to a new daily pay rate announced Wednesday by Hamamoto, Class III substitute teachers who earn $113.20 a day would have earned $110.71 in the first semester of the current school year and $112.92 in the second semester. That would amount to daily pay cuts of $2.49 and 28 cents in the respective semesters.
But she said yesterday that despite the new rate, those teachers will continue to earn $113.20 for the school year.
"Class III will be held harmless this fiscal year," she said. "Come next fiscal year, July 1, 2002, all classes (of substitute teachers) will be given one rate."
Come July 1, another single rate for all classes will take effect, she said. But she did not have that figure available yesterday.
Hamamoto said retroactive raises for the current school year will be paid to Class I and II substitute teachers who earn $97.90 and $105.27.
The new rate, which is tied by state law to negotiated raises for public school teachers, brings the three classes of substitute teachers into a single daily pay rate.
According to figures released yesterday by the Department of Education, the raise means $12.81 more a day for Class I teachers in the first semester and $15.02 more a day for the second semester. Class II teachers will be earning daily pay increases of $5.44 and $7.65 for the respective semesters.
State Department of Education
