{"id":180800,"date":"2019-09-23T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=180800"},"modified":"2019-09-24T07:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:39:09","slug":"teachers-school-board-agree-on-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=180800","title":{"rendered":"Teachers, School Board agree on new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 On Monday, the Jamestown Public School Board and the \u00a0Jamestown Education Association (JEA) have agreed to a two-year teacher contract.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year agreement includes $800 salary increases for the 2019-2020 school year and a $1,300 increase for the second year. The starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor&#8217;s degree will be $43,817 in the first year of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Also, both parties agreed concerning that \u00a0newly hired teacher in the district cannot be paid more than a returning teacher with similar experience.<\/p>\n<p>A newly hired teacher in the district is able bring in a maximum of 10 years of experience outside of Jamestown Public Schools to count toward the salary schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Also agreed to is that the Health Insurance Committee for the district would consist of five teachers (three voting, two ex-officio), two board members, one administrator and one support staff member. The committee chairman must be a teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 On Monday, the Jamestown Public School Board and the \u00a0Jamestown Education Association (JEA) have agreed to a two-year teacher contract. The two-year agreement includes $800 salary increases for the 2019-2020 school year and a $1,300 increase for the second year. The starting salary for a teacher with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180801,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180800\/revisions\/180801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}