The union, in their press release, has informed the members that our 2% raise for the yeas 2013 and 2014 will be in our second check of the fall (September 30th). Included in the raises will be the retro payments for the same time period, or so the union claims. The per session retro payments for the 2013 and 2014 period will be sent out on October 3rd. Just to remind you, we get 1% for each of the two years, starting from May 1, 2013 and May 1, 2014 so the retro payments will be low, probably averaging about $750 for the average teacher salary.
Interestingly, "newbie teachers" will be getting a more significant raise of 4.3% ($2,000) as both the UFT and DOE encourage the hiring of new teachers at the expense of retaining experienced teachers who are stuck with the measly 2% increase in their salary in the DOE's "education on the cheap"policy.
Finally, most of the teachers will be getting their final ratings the day they return to school, September 2nd and there may be some very unhappy educators as a result. Hopefully, the number of "ineffective or developing"educators are small but for the ones that get that designation, remember, you need two "ineffectives"so make sure it doesn't happen this school year.