European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paged the stars and stripes april Dodds teachers getting pay increase average 8 raise Wiuf be retroactive to Start of school year by Charlie Bowden staff writer teachers in overseas schools will be getting a pay raise next retroactive to the Start of the school averaging nearly 8 Many teachers who had reached the Peak of the salary schedule will get their first salary increase in several salary schedules for teachers in the department of defense dependents schools Are recalculated each year following a Survey of pay data for selected metropolitan school districts in the United this the Survey included data from 171 school jurisdictions in Urban areas with populations of More than the raise this year ranges from a High of percent for teachers with a bachelors degree to a Low of percent for teachers a masters degree and at least 30 hours of advanced teachers with a bachelors degree and 15 credits of advanced work will receive a 9 percent raise those with a masters degree will get percent and those with a doctorate Are due the raise puts the starting salary for a Dodds teacher with a bachelors degree at up from last overseas education association president Jack Roll ins praised the new pay saying it includes Sev eral significant changes that will improve the compensation package for Dodds although the pay schedule is outlined by the in conjunction wit i its Parent National education con ducts its own poll of the largest school Union officials said this data is used in bargaining with Dodds Over interpretation of the bargaining Over this years schedule was completed last Union officials Dodds director Beth Stephens said the raise was it May be particularly fortuitous in View of the prob ability of a 5 percent pay Cut or freeze this year for other new a pad old salary schedule for teachers a 1s87s 7 9 10 11 13 14 20 25 7 1 26515 12 to so 14 30870 30r495 i sources overseas association overseas education association Federal employee she significant changes this year also include standardizing step increases so that each pay Lane has 15 step the pay schedule for classroom teachers is broken into five pay lanes with 15 step increases based on years of in previous Only the top two lanes had 15 step the other pay lanes broke off at the 13th or nth also added this year Are longevity increases at the 20 year and 25year giving some teachers their first Opportunity for a salary increase since hitting the Peak Point several years although it wont be substitute teachers will be getting a raise starting next school officials said the pay for which has steadily declined during the past few jumped from per Day to per about a percent Union officials attribute the increases primarily to the educational reforms being implemented in Many parts of the United it is a part of the growing recognition of the need to attract and retain the highest Quality teachers Avail said an sea subcommittee chairwoman plans hearings Dodds teachers grievances to be aired in House by Chuck Vinch Munich Bureau chief Italy the chairwoman of a House sub committee that oversees compensation and benefits for Federal employees says she will hold congressional hear Ings this year to address grievances cited by overseas teachers against the Dodds Mary Rose who chairs the Post office and civil service subcommittee on compensation and employee recently heard firsthand about some of those grievances when she attended the annual convention in Verona of the overseas federation of i am fully prepared to hold hearings on some of the issues raised at the conference which directly affect the Quality of education in our schools said a former an Oft spokesman said those issues would include arbitrary firing of probationary sexual harassment of women teachers by school poor educational an ineffectual Supply sys and stifling of Contact Between teachers and their congressional Oakar she is planning to Campaign hard for the overseas teachers act of legislation introduced in Congress by Oakar that would Deal with teachers housing allow ances and other we Are faced today with a question of she do we think More of weapons and hardware than we do about people if you Analyse the priorities in the Reagan administrations you will see that any program related to including benefits for overseas Are experiencing fantastic while anything to do with hardware is usually Oakar said she is convinced the legislation is necessary following a trip she made to Japan in january to visit and talk with teachers in Dodds schools the most common complaint was the Lack of trans she most teachers said they would be will ing to experience substandard living conditions for a year or two if they had some Hope of moving to less isolated i discovered that some teachers had served in the tame location for 10 and 12 years without being Able to Transfer to a More desirable if we Are to retain these then we must design a system that will allow them to compete on an annual basis for available vacancies in other Oakar also said she was appalled by the fact that overseas teachers could not use local military medical it is ludicrous that defense department educational personnel have to travel 60 to 75 Miles per Day to see a foreign doctor while military doctors and dentists sit Idle less than 10 or 15 minutes she teachers overseas Are being faced with increased Stu Dent graduation lengthening of the school Day and additional duties such As and All of this without additional staffer she in not saying those things  be but i am saying that teachers should be compensated for doing the Bill would do things like tailor the length of the school year in Dodds to that of schools in the states is that so unreasonable but from the reaction of the Dodds you would think we were trying to revolutionize Beth Dodds told a congressional panel during hearings last fall that Dodds was opposed to the Bill because it would create an elite teachers corps with benefits and privileges extended to no other group of employees in the Federal that just Oakar and in any whats wrong with wanting our teachers to be elite i happen to think that we have a responsibility to see that the children of service members have the Best and most dedicated teachers Vakars Bill would place teachers on All five rungs of a five step career which would give teachers room to be promoted without forcing them to leave the classroom to become and Dodds now has five pay but teachers Are assigned Only to the three lowest putting teachers on All Levels would Reward teachers who want to continue teaching but also want to earn the Bill base teachers pay on the average pay of equivalent teachers in jurisdictions with their pay is now the average in Urban jurisdictions of Dodds has about give teachers hired overseas the same housing and transportation entitlements As those brought Over from the Mary Rose Oakar will push for teachers benefits states after the overseas hires have served one year Success improve opportunities for teachers already in the sys tem to Transfer to More desirable duty limit the length of the school Day and the school establish a oneyear sabbatical for teachers who have served seven Oakar introduced the Bill and hearings were held on it last but Congress failed to act on i am going to do More on it this time she i intend to have this Bill what is More important than the total Well being of our service members and their famines the education of their children is an important part of that she said action on the Bill and on any further hearings on teachers grievances will probably not come until the Battle Over next years Federal budget is we dont expect anything will be done until some time in the the Oft spokesman