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Our surveys show how your salaries and benefits rank among Oregon schools. SPOT (School Personnel Online Tools subscription service) instantly gives you comparative salary and benefit data including SABA (Salary and Benefit Analyzer), Negotiator's Notebook, a contract language index and more.
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Affordable Care Act information center
Information about the Affordable Care Act also known as Obama Care or Healthcare Reform
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Affordable Care Act Toolkit
Downloadable spreadsheets to help you calculate large employer status, estimate potential penalties and track hourly employees according to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
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Average teacher salary
A three-year comparison of the ODE average teacher salary.
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Average teacher salary maps
Downloadable maps of average teacher salaries.
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Avoid insurance problems early with joint committees
The usual strategy of “negotiated tradeoffs” isn’t the best way to plan health care benefits these days, especially when everyone should agree to share the burden of rising costs.
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California certificated staff performance incentive
An explanation of the California Certificated Staff Performance Incentive Act.
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Coming to grips with less for everyone
As fiscal reality worsens with each economic forecast, boards and unions face the challenge of “living within our means.”
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Consumer price index
Portland and U.S. CPI averages since 1979.
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Increases to base salary
A three-year comparison of the increases to the BA Step 0 Salary.
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Insurance contributions - teachers
A three-year comparison of insurance contributions for teachers.
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Insurance strategies - when more is better
What do striking grocery workers, the longest school district strike in Washington state history, Chicago teachers taking a strike vote and an eagerly awaited report from Portland Public Schools all have in common? The rising cost of health insurance.
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Licensed/faculty and classified staff insurance cap methods
Chart showing types of insurance cap methods used in 2007-2008.
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Oregon educators exploring new ways of teacher pay
Representatives from nearly 40 districts of all sizes and education stakeholders - including a group from OSBA - attended Chalkboard Project's Info Day August 4 in Eugene to take a fresh look at teacher pay and evaluation.
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Oregon performance pay plans
An increasing number of Oregon school districts are adopting performance-pay options in their collective bargaining agreements.
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Oregon school districts and ESDs with licensed insurance caps
Chart showing districts and ESDs with licensed insurance caps since 1998-99.
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OSBA annual survey of teacher salaries and benefits
A downloadable publication containing a comparison of teacher salaries and benefits for the current year.
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Performance pay primer
Teacher Performance Pay, as part of a total compensation program, is a concept that bears further examination.
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Performance pay primer - design and implementation
According to Alan Odden (University of Wisconsin, CPRE), experience with implementing performance pay systems yields a number of recommendations for those considering this challenge:
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Performance pay primer - employee compensation programs
There are some very good reasons for developing an effective compensation program.
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Performance pay primer - implementation guidelines
Finally, the study identified nine points districts should follow to ensure success in a school-based performance program:
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Performance pay primer - teacher merit pay
The mid-1970s to the mid-1980s was the merit pay decade. It was during these years that a variety of plans developed in school districts across the nation.
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Performance pay primer - teacher motivation
In a February 2000 policy brief, the Consortium for Policy Research and Education (CPRE) examined the motivational effects of School Based Performance Awards (SBPA) on teachers and principals in three sites across the country; the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina, the Kentucky Accountability Program, and the Maryland School Performance Program. According to this study, school-based performance awards are a popular accountability strategy intended to align individual- or school-level monetary incentives with the school’s ability to meet student achievement standards.
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Performance pay primer - teacher salary schedules
Since the 1920’s, the single salary schedule format has been used to pay all teachers the same in terms of educational attainment and experience in every grade, subject, and school. Most districts increase pay for experience (i.e., seniority) more than they do for education.
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Performance pay resources
Links to information about performance pay.
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Reductions in force - the Board's role
An overview of the role of the board and the appropriate process and procedures that are followed by the district administrator for reductions in force.
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Salary costing can help you see the whole picture
“Show me the money,” the saying from the movie “Jerry Maguire,” could be a workers’ chant during collective bargaining. Unions want boards to pay higher wages and all insurance costs, which can detour the collective bargaining process from clarity into confusion.
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Salary schedule descriptions
A three-year comparison of salary schedules.
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Sample performance pay plan
Sample performance pay plan
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Substitute teacher pay
Table listing Oregon's substitute teacher pay since 2000-01.
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Tips on creating labor-management committees
Helpful information on creating labor-management insurance committees.
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Unemployment insurance costs
Questions and answers about unemployment insurance costs
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What's on the table? Are higher salaries really the answer?
An analysis of what motivates teachers when employees are in short supply.
Recommended Resources
OSBA/COSA Legislative Summary 2017
The 2017 OSBA/COSA Legislative Summary contains a brief synopsis of new laws from the 2017 Legislative Session impacting the personnel, operations, programs and finance of school districts, ESDs, charter schools and community colleges.