Article 12 - Work Day/Work Year

B. Teacher Work Year 

• 193 contract days for teachers new to the district or the profession

• District removed weekly early releases, our contract already outlining a return to three in-service days

• Work Day for grade K-8  will be the last Friday in April. SHS work day will be in place of spring conferences.

• For the 2025-2026 school year, the workweek schedule will provide one hour of time for the purpose of collaborating on student achievement.

C. Teacher Workday

• Principals must communicate to teachers and their supervisors, what evening events are required (including tentative dates)

  • Must be shared during in-service week

• One month of notice required for any changes (exceptions made of things out of admin control)

• The SFEA president will receive a list of required activities at each building

D. Teacher Prep Time

• K-12 classroom teachers will receive the substitute rate of pay when classes are combined due to the inability to acquire a substitute. 

J. An adaptation for departmentalized schools 

• Moved from Article 19

• ELA teachers teaching more than 4 periods of ELA classes receive FOUR workdays!

K. Caseload Managers (Special Education and English Language Development) 

• Moved from Article 19

Article 16 - Leave With Pay

• Accruded sick leave has been expanded to include attending to a mental or physical illness/event, injury or health condition or need for preventative care to attend to the illness or medical appointment of a family member, the same expanded definition applies to the use of the sick bank. 

• Building ratios for personal leave has been specified to licensed staff (this includes principals)

• Five (5) days of bereavement leave has been expanded to include any individual related by blood or affinity whose close association with a covered individual is the equivalent of a family relationship.

Article 19 - Class Size

• Specification that class size targets also include specialists case loads

Article 22 - Insurance Benefits

• 2025-2026 - $25 increase to $1,725, opt out increased to $550. 

Article 23 - Compensation

• Link to the new salary schedule is here. 

• For 2025-26, traditional and PEER schedules will increase by 2.5% COLA 

• Supervision: $23.25/hr and Extended Contract: $31.04/hr

Addendum B - Extra Duty Salary Schedule

• Two positions were added: Instructional Coach (Level 3) and District Testing Coordinator (Level 4)

• The extra duty schedule was also increased by the 2.5% COLA