Teachers continue negotiations

Agreements have been reached between the Metro Nashville Education Association (MNEA) and the schools administration on changes to employment conditions although salary issues remain unresolved.

The new language applies annual increases to the summer school rate of pay, limits the length of time personnel can receive on-the-job injury compensation to 18 months and limits when teachers may request to transfers to another school.

Non-tenured teachers may only request to transfer between their first and second years working in Metro and any teacher who the board pays to train in Paideia, Montessouri or International Baccalaureate methods must serve in that program three years.

Disagreement over a new administrative salary scale is the main obstacle stalling progress on salary issues, according to MNEA chief negotiator Eric Huth.

Metro simplified how administrators are paid to a method that no longer takes into consideration the size of a particular school.

In the conversion, every administrator