FL H0587

School districts that have not yet reached a $47,500 minimum base salary for full-time classroom teachers must use at least 50% of their teacher salary increase allocation to raise the minimum base salary to that target

Districts that have already met the $47,500 minimum may use allocation funds to raise salaries of veteran teachers who received less than a 3% raise in the previous fiscal year and other full-time instructional personnel

District school boards are now authorized (rather than required) to adopt performance-based salary schedules and to use advanced degrees as criteria when setting salary schedules for instructional personnel and school administrators

Instructional personnel on continuing contracts or professional service contracts may continue using pre-existing salary schedules or opt into performance salary schedules by relinquishing their contracts for annual contracts

Effective date: July 1, 2022