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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Greendale Top Paid Teachers Second Highest in Region

Greendale School District teachers have some of the highest paid teachers in the region. The top salary rank second and the starting salary ranks fourth, according to information collected by the district.

Greendale's top-paid teachers have the second-highest salary in the region, according to information collected by the Greendale School District. The top salary for a Greendale teacher is $82,689, which ranks second behind Port Washington‐Saukville ($84,282). Starting teachers with a bachelor’s degree make $40,163 in Greendale, coming fourth behind Franklin ($49,679), Muskego‐Norway ($41,894), and Oak Creek‐Franklin ($41,000). Greendale ranks fifth highest for salary level at the highest level of the Master’s degree salary and 11th at the lowest level. Business Director Erin Green said in a memo, “To remain competitive, it is important that Greendale consider teachers at all levels of education and experience, as well as the total …

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Ron Burgundy

4:48 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013

So you don't think that pay has any correlation to quality of teacher and/or quality of the education? What do you think they should be paid?   more ›

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Retiring Greendale Teachers to Retain Benefits Prior to the Budget Repair Bill

School Board votes to honor commitment to staff who already have fifteen plus years in the district.

Hoping to stem a tide of retirements similar to what the Greendale School District experienced last spring, the Greendale School Board plans to allow qualified future retirees to lock in benefits they earned before 'Act 10' went into effect. Governor Walker's controversial budget repair bill took effect in June 2011, ending the current collective bargaining agreements in Wisconsin. Across the state, many teachers opted to retire rather than face increases in health insurance costs or reductions in benefits. Nineteen Greendale staff members retired at the end of the 2010-11 school year, up from an average yearly retirement of five-to-ten employees in the district. That echoed a trend statewide, as data from the Wisconsin Retirement System …

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CowDung

9:14 am on Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Actually, I question the value of master's degrees for educators. Studies have shown that advanced degrees do not translate into better classroom performance by the students. If you want to compare private and public salaries, make sure that the comparison is really apples to apples. In my community, the private elementary school teachers earn only about 70-80% of what the public elementary …   more ›

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