Stitts budget also proposes squirreling away an additional $100 million into state reserve accounts. Read the reports and hear the stories onNPR member stations. Have a story idea for Nuria? Whoops! There is hereby appropriated to the State Board of Education from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, the sum of One Billion Four Hundred Seventy-eight Million One Hundred Five Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ($1,478,105,700.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary for the financial support of public schools. Please subscribe to keep reading. First through fourth-year teachers would see $3,000 raises. This budget request is Hofmeisters last as state superintendent. This is also consistent with statements made by the Governor and legislative leaders teachers are to receive a pay increase in the 2019-2020 school year. $4 million in appropriations and $1.5 million in reimbursements for the state to become Real ID compliant. The teacher-shortage figure of 600 cited by Pemberton exceeds the shortages reported prior to the 2018 tax increases and pay raises. The declines were 80% in Oklahoma, 67% in Michigan, 62% in Pennsylvania, 61% in Delaware, 60% in Illinois, 55% in Idaho, 54% in Indiana and New Mexico, and 51% in Rhode Island. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Oklahoma legislator files bills for teacher, support staff pay And I think education, our young people and our teachers need to be a priority.. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time. However, the Governor and legislative leaders stated publicly that the amount appropriated SB 1048 identifies certified personnel as defined by 70 O.S. Whats not in the governors budget proposal. Outside candidates. Early budget projections showed the state is likely to have a flat budget next year. When the salaries are adjusted for inflation, teachers are earning on average $2,179 less per year than they did a decade ago. Teachers with five through nine years' experience would receive a $4,000 raise. The cost for a $1,200 pay raise for twelve months is $70,630,204. "The metrics used to determine merit-based pay are controversial and inequitable," OEA President Katherine Bishop said in a statement. He has two decades of experience in journalism and communications. Teacher Salary House Bill 2765 and Senate Bill 1048, enacted and signed into law during the 2019 legislative session, establish requirements and opportunities for Oklahoma public schools (LEAs) to prepare for and disseminate annual salary increases to the certified personnel they employ. The state minimum salary did not increase, and the language pertaining to the 2018-2019 pay raise that explicitly required the raise in addition to what the individual made in the prior year was not renewed. Districts can decide if they want to give staff a one-time pay increase of $1,200 or a one-time increase in an amount based on performance or the need to retain staff. Because teacher retirement benefits are tied to the last three years of income, one impact of the teacher pay raises was to temporarily slow the pace of retirements while educators racked up credit for newly increased salaries.