Warsaw Community Schools administration, the Warsaw Board of School Trustees and the Warsaw Community Education Association announced the passage of a teachers contract effective for the 2016-17 school year. While enrollment and state funding have stayed relatively flat for WCS, according to a press release from the school corporation, all parties involved have actively and efficiently limited spending, thus creating the fiscal environment supporting this contract. WCS has been under the new Indiana contract laws for four years. Indiana state code limits pay increases to educators receiving an effective or highly effective evaluation rating during the 2015-16 school year. For the eligible certified WCS teachers, the maximum increase possible will be $600 on the base salary, or roughly a 1.25 percent increase on the current average salary, the release states. WCS is still awaiting ISTEP results. These results partially account for teacher evaluation data as prescribed by Indiana law. Increases retroactive to the start of the 2016-17 school year will occur once finalized data is provided by the Indiana State Board of Education.
