Tonight I attended a budget workshop run by the UFT for chapter leaders. I learned a great deal, despite it being such a short presentation, including the fact that there is a major difference in how salaries are calculated for budgets between NYC and Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, there was an average amount of money calculated centrally that was used to "buy" a teacher for a school, no matter what their seniority or pay status was. For NYC, it is an average of just your school, meaning if you have a lot of senior teachers the amount of money you have to spend increases. It's interesting that this choice (I assume it was a choice at one time) was made because it incentivizes getting rid of more experienced teachers in order to recoup their money. I hope and think the information I am learning is useful to myself and my staff in the future!
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March 2022
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