Calabasas : Some School Staff May Get Pay Hike

Substitute teachers and other non-management employees of the Las Virgenes Unified School District will be getting a raise if the Board of Education approves a proposed 2.7% increase at a meeting tonight.

The board will vote on the matter during a 6 p.m. meeting at district headquarters, 4111 N. Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas.

The positions, which are not covered by the collective-bargaining process, include home teachers, adult education teachers, in-service instructors (those who teach teachers), various instructors who work on an hourly basis, a part-time nurse and some nonteaching positions, such as supervisors of a Saturday detention program for students.

If the increase is approved, substitute teachers would earn $85.50 a day; home teachers would be paid $24.19 an hour, and a part-time nurse’s position, $19.36 an hour.

District staff, which recommended the raises, said the pay for these jobs has not increased since the 1991-92 school year. As a result, Assistant Supt. Robert Fraisse said, the salaries are less competitive than those in other districts.

The raises, which would go into effect Feb. 1, would cost the district an additional $11,264 for the balance of this fiscal year, and $22,900 annually, district officials said.

Over the past two years, according to district records, regular teachers have received pay raises of 4.3% and some management personnel have received raises of as much as 2.5%

“I think it’s just a fairness issue, to look at how we’re paying these people,” said board President Judy Jordan. Because they are not part of the collective-bargaining process, she said, the pay rate sometimes can fall behind.