The Attorney General has issued a decision a decision regarding Annual Step Increases. Summary: A school district that adopted a local salary schedule in 2008-2009 must compensate an educator subject to Education Code section 21.402(a) in the 2010-2011 school year in the amount provided by subsection (c-1) and the amount he or she would receive under the district’s 2008-2009 local salary schedule if it were in effect for the 2010-2011 school year, including any local supplement and any money representing a career ladder supplement for that school year. The educator will receive that amount even if the 2008-2009 local salary schedule did not provide him or her a salary increase in the 2009-2010 school years.
A school district that adopted a local salary schedule in 2008-2009 would be required to pay an educator with seven years’ experience hired for the first time during the 2010-2011 school year the amount provided by the district’s 2008-2009 salary schedule as if it applied in 2010-2011.
To view the decision regarding the effect of recent amendment to section 21.402 of the Education Code on salaries paid to school district employees (RQ-0855-GA), please visit: http://www.oag.state.tx.us/opinions/opinions/50abbott/rq/2010/pdf/RQ0855GA.pdf