Placement on Salary Schedule on Initial Employment and Thereafter. A. An administrator, on initial employment, shall be placed on the salary schedule according to previous experience and degrees earned at accredited institutions. Placement on the salary schedules for the Director of Instructional Technology, Supervisor and Director of Athletics shall be based on administrative experience. Placement on the salary schedules for Curriculum Coordinators, Program Coordinators and Vice Principals shall be based on teaching and administrative experience. One-half or greater fraction of a year shall be counted as one year. The salary of administrators who are employed less than full-time shall be prorated in accordance with existing practices. Effective September 2012, each Unit B member will be provided with a written or email statement prior to the first day of school with the following information: assigned grade level(s) or subject(s) for the start of the school year, assigned school(s), salary schedule placement (step and lane), salary, and extra compensation where applicable and known.
B. Notwithstanding the first two paragraph in Section 3.6.A, the Superintendent or his/her designee may place an administrator, on initial employment, with the Public Schools of Brookline, on the salary schedule at a higher step than the administrator’s previous teaching and/or administrative experience, if any, would otherwise warrant. There shall be a limit of five (5) administrators employed on a higher step at any time. An administrator is considered to be employed on a higher step until such time that the administrator would have reached the maximum step had s/he been placed upon initial hire on the step that his/her previous teaching and/or administrative experience warranted. The Superintendent will notify the BEU President of the hiring of such an administrator(s), the step on which the administrator was placed, and the step the administrator’s experience warranted.
Placement on Salary Schedule on Initial Employment and Thereafter. A. Employees hired in this unit will be initially placed on the salary scales as follows. One-half or greater fraction of a year of experience shall be counted as one year.
i. A teacher, on initial employment, shall be placed on the salary schedule according to previous teaching experience and degrees and credits earned at accredited institutions.
ii. A nurse, library assistant or lab specialist, on initial employment, shall be placed on the salary schedule according to previous experience in this field and degrees and credits earned at accredited institutions.
iii. Librarians and non-classroom teaching specialists not listed in paragraph ii above, on initial employment, shall be placed on the salary schedule according to degrees earned at accredited institutions and previous experience in a school setting, or after being licensed or certified or earning a masters degree, previous experience working with school-aged children. Librarians will also receive credit for previous experience in public libraries.
iv. Effective September 2012, the term “experience” in subsections i, ii, and iii above shall not include:
a. Experience outside of Massachusetts;
b. Experience in a position in or outside of Massachusetts for which a license issued by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) was not required by DESE;
c. Experience when the employee did not hold a Massachusetts DESE license.
v. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, the Superintendent or his/her designee shall have the sole discretion to place an individual upon initial employment or reemployment in the Brookline Public Schools on the salary schedule at any step in the appropriate lane. The Superintendent/designee shall notify each such individual of his/her placement under this provision. Such discretion shall be limited to no more than fifteen (15) individuals per academic year.
