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“Nothing is hidden, we’re public employees,” Hardin said. Hardin also disagreed with the contention that step increases are hidden raises. “It makes teachers better teachers and more knowledgeable and able to do more than they probably did as a year one teacher.” She also said that teachers improve with experience. Hardin pointed out that unless teachers become administrators, they have no position to be promoted to and thus deserves raises based on experience. Defenders of step increases and salary schedules say teachers should get raises based on experience. “We just wanted to make sure what we negotiated was within what we could afford from a levy standpoint,” Cofsky said.Ĭritics of step increase argue that they are unseen raises that allow teachers to get double raises each year, an increase in base salary and a seniority-based increase. “Their interest was to have the step structure and our interest was to live within our means and we met and came up with a winning solution between the two,” Cofsky said. Teachers at the lower end of the salary schedule will generally receive greater raises in percentage terms than teachers at the higher ends of the salary scale. But the reinstatement of step increases, automatic raises for another year of seniority, means that total raises will average out to be 3.5 percent annually according to the district. The new contract calls for raises in base pay of two percent in the first year of the contract and base pay raises of 1.3 percent in each of the final three years of the contract. 25 meeting after teachers had ratified the agreement the week before. The OPRF District 200 Board of Education voted unanimously to approve the contract at its Aug. School officials meanwhile are lauding the overall amount of the combined base pay and step increases which average 3.5% in each year of the contract. Teachers at Oak Park and River Forest High School have a new four-year contract and, in a notable win for teachers, step pay increases are back after being eliminated in the previous contract.