An Act To Limit Regional Adjustments to Teacher Salaries

Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15682,  as amended by PL 2005, c. 519, Pt. AAAA, §9, is further amended to read:

§ 15682. Regional adjustment

The commissioner shall make a regional adjustment in the total operating allocation for each school administrative unit determined pursuant to section 15683. The regional adjustment must be based on the regional differences in teacher salary costs within labor market areas in the State, as computed by a statewide education policy research institute, and must be applied only to appropriate teacher salary and benefits costs as calculated under section 15678 and salary and benefit costs of other school-level staff who are not teachers as calculated under section 15679. The multiplier for a regional adjustment made pursuant to this section may not be less than 1.0.

summary

This bill specifies that any regional adjustment multiplier applied to teacher salaries and benefits may not be less than 1.0.