LWSD Teachers to Get First Pay Hike in 4 Years

After a long dry spell, teachers in the Lake Washington School District will get a 2 percent raise in the 2013-14 school year, and another 2 percent bump in 2014-15, the first raises district teachers have seen since 2008.

The District and the Lake Washington Education Association (LWEA) have agreed to a new contract for the next four years, the 2013-14 through 2016-17 school years.

Highlights of the contract related to compensation include eliminating extra unpaid days that teachers worked in lieu of a 1.9 percent pay cut instituted by the state in the 2010-11 school year, the district said in a news release. Teachers will have one additional paid training day in August, for a total of five, plus three full days for training during the school year. Teachers also will get a 2 percent salary increase, the first increase since the 2008-09 school year. Teachers will get an additional increase of 2 percent in 2014-15.