Reference is to Printer's Date 02/28/19-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Section 59-20-50(4)(b), as contained in SECTION 39, Subpart IV, Incentives, PART V, Educator Development and Satisfaction, by deleting item (b) in its entirety and inserting:
/ (b) The state minimum
salary schedule must be based on the state minimum salary
schedule index in effect as of July 1, 1984. In Fiscal
Year 1985, the 1.000 figure in the index is $14,172
Beginning with Fiscal Year 2019-2020, minimum teacher salary
is thirty-five thousand dollars. Salary increases must be
based on funding provided by the General Assembly in the annual
appropriations act and provided through adjustments in the
salary schedule to educators identified by the State Department
of Education as eligible to receive the Education Improvement
Act teacher salary supplement during Fiscal Year 2018-2019 as
reported to the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.
(This figure is based on a 10.27% increase pursuant to
the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984.) Beginning
with Fiscal Year 1986, the 1.000 figure in the index must be
adjusted on a schedule to stay at the southeastern average as
projected by the Office of Research and Statistic of the Revenue
and Fiscal Affairs Office and provided to the General Assembly
during their deliberations on the annual appropriations bill.
The southeastern average teacher salary is the average of the
average teachers' salaries of the southeastern states. In
projecting the southeastern average, the office shall include in
the South Carolina base teacher salary all local teacher
supplements and all incentive pay. Under this schedule, school
districts are required to maintain local salary supplements per
teacher no less than their prior fiscal level. In Fiscal Year
1986 and thereafter teacher pay raises through adjustments in
the state's minimum salary schedule may be provided only to
teachers who demonstrate minimum knowledge proficiency by
meeting one of the following criteria:
(1)
holding a valid professional certificate;
(2)
having a score of 425 or greater on the Commons Examination of
the National Teachers Examinations;
(3)
meeting the minimum qualifying score on the appropriate area
teaching examination; or
(4)
meeting the minimum standards on the basic skills examinations
as prescribed by the State Board of Education provided in
Section 59-26-20 The General Assembly shall
establish the starting teacher salary each year in the annual
appropriations act. The salary schedule and Education Finance
Act inflation factor may be determined in the annual General
Appropriations Act." /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.