Maffey said the contract negotiations, while protracted, remained very professional and free of rancor. “A lot of it was just trying to figure out the legislative changes,” Maffey said. The contract negotiations stretched throughout the first semester as the bargaining teams worked to accommodate a change in state law enacted in 2018, which now penalizes districts that give retiring teachers raises of more than 3 percent, down from the previous 6 percent. “I don’t think the matrix is the bugaboo that people make it out to be,” said Joseph Massey, an English teacher at LTHS who is the president of the teachers’ union. The increase in the number of steps is reaction to changes to the teacher pension system, which causes younger teacher to have to work longer to receive their maximum retirement pension. Teachers with more than 22 years of seniority will receive raises of 1 percent for each five years of time working at LTHS.
Eighty-nine percent of LTHS teachers hold a master’s degree, according to the school report card.Īt a time when some school districts are moving away from traditional salary schedules and their automatic step increases, this contract expands the number of steps to 22 from 18, beginning next year. A teacher with 60 hours of graduate credit beyond a master’s degree and 18 years of seniority at LTHS will make $134,670 this year.Īccording to the Illinois School Report Card, the average salary of an LTHS teacher is $109,139.
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