Over the years there has been a considerable amount of confusion and criticism regarding teacher salaries and raises. Certain critics of public education, typified by the Champion.org website who, until recently, incorrectly claimed large salary increases (as a result of their faulty analyses) caused many to feel that teachers had received overly generous increases.
The following is an in-depth examination of recent District 203 teachers annual salary increases and of the method that is used to interpret them. We thank Dave Zager, Asst. Superintendent of Finance for District 203, for providing much of the information.
