Classified Employee Legislative Issues ERNN CONFERENCE PRESENTATION FEBRUARY 28, 2015

Increase state funding for classified employee services  Compensation  Staffing

Market based compensation  HB 2261  “…the technical working group shall conduct or contract for a preliminary comparative labor market analysis of salaries and other compensation for school district employees to be conducted and shall include the results in any reports to the legislature.  QEC received workgroup report in 2012

Classified salary recommendation 4 Position Current State Funding Current Local Funding Total Current Funding New State Funded Amount Teaching Assistance (InstructionalAides/Paraeducators)$31,699$1,197$32,896$45,386 Office Support and other Non-instructional Aides$31,699$6,037$37,736$40,949 Custodians$31,699$5,070$36,769$39,454 Classified staff providing student and staff safety$31,699$5,651$37,350$44,040 Family Involvement Coordinator $45,386 Technology$31,699$23,249$54,948$83,253 Facilities, maintenance and grounds$31,699$15,616$47,315$50,057 Warehouse, laborers, and mechanics$31,699$10,743$42,442$36,522 Central Office, Classified$31,699$22,872$54,571$56,374

Cost of salary recommendation  $277 million (2014 estimate)  House appropriations committee passed HB 2792 to fully fund  2013 – House passed budget funded 50% of the increase 5

Staffing adequacy recommendations HB 2776: “(B) RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ASSURING ADEQUATE LEVELS OF STATE-FUNDED CLASSIFIED STAFF TO SUPPORT ESSENTIAL SCHOOL AND DISTRICT SERVICES.”

Staffing adequacy report  Workgroups developed classification recommendations  “The QEC provisionally adopts the recommendations of the Classified Staffing Adequacy Working Group for essential staffing levels” - QEC 2011 Report to the Legislature  Placed into Initiative 1351 (with small changes)

Paraeducators  Elementary School – 400 students  FTE increase  Middle School – 432 students .3 FTE Increase  High School – 600 students .35 FTE Increase 8

Secretaries  Elementary School – 400 students  1 FTE increase  Middle School – 432 students  1.2 FTE Increase  High School – 600 students .25 FTE Increase 9

Custodians  Elementary School – 400 students .04 FTE increase  Middle School – 432 students .05 FTE Increase  High School – 600 students .03 FTE Increase 10

Student safety  Elementary School – 400 students .08 FTE decrease  Middle School – 432 students .61 FTE Increase  High School – 600 students  1.16 FTE Increase 11

Parent involvement coordinator  Elementary School – 400 students  1 FTE increase  Middle School – 432 students  1 FTE Increase  High School – 600 students  1 FTE Increase 12

Technology  For every 1,000 students  2.2 FTE Increase 13

Facilities, Maintenance, Grounds  For every 1,000 students  2.2 FTE Increase 14

Warehouse, Laborers, Mechanics  For every 1,000 students  1.6 FTE Increase 15

Increased state cost - $680 Million

Affordable, quality health insurance for all school employees RISING INSURANCE PREMIUMS, EDUCATION “BIAS” AGAINST FAMILY/DEPENDENT COVERAGE, PART-TIME FUNDING INEQUALITY HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES ABILITY TO PAY FOR INSURANCE

1. Premium increases (inflation funding) 2. Half-time funding 3. Health insurance reform to eliminate education “bias”

Insurance Premium Increases  School Year  WEA/Premera rates up 17%  WEA/Premera has 60% of K 12 covered lives  School Year  WEA/Premera rates up 8%  Next two years??? – 6% to 8%

Insurance premium funding  Last funding was September 2010  $ %  $ %  $ %  $ %  $ %  & Inflation Funding  Governor Inslee Budget – 0%

Half-time or more funding

Bureau of labor statistics - single National Part time definition - Less than 35 hours per week PEBB Part time definition - More than 20 hours per week less than 40 hours per week

Bureau of labor statistics

Health insurance reform  SB 5976  Consolidation effective January 1, 2017  SEBB (school employee benefits board)  begins September 1, 2015  develops plans and premium structure  Coalition bargaining at State level (same as state employees)  No local bargaining for basic benefit plans or payments  Pooling eliminated  Single to family ratio – 1:2.5

Cost of living adjustments (salary increase) INITIATIVE 732 REQUIRED THEM FOR THE LAST 6 YEARS

Initiative 732 COLA – Seattle CPI  School YearState FundedSeattle CPI  %4.2%  %0.6%  %0.3%  %2.7%  %2.5%  %1.3%  %*  %*  *current estimate

Governor Inslee Proposed Salary Increase  Salary Increase - $386 million  3.0%  1.8%

Paraeducator development program  SB 6129 – passed in 2014 legislative session  Workgroup to make recommendations  Report to legislature by January 10, 2015  Report on special education and general education paraeducators to legislature by January 2016

Opportunity Gap Students  108,000 Ell / TBIP Eligible Students - $218 million  476,000 LAP Eligible Students - $438 million

ProgramCertificated hrs.Classified hrs.Total hrs.Class % Disadvantaged - Fed'l 1,037,374 1,405,306 2,442, % LAP - State 1,614,507 1,793,405 3,407, % Ltd English Proficiency - Fed'l 8,058 8,794 16, % TBIP - State 894,947 1,358,807 2,253, % Total 3,554,886 4,566,312 8,121, %

SB Implement Paraeducator recommendations  Impacts paraeducators in ELL & LAP  Minimum employment standard – meet NCLBA standard  Must become a certificated paraeducator  2 school years to test certification process  Starting : 3 years to become certificated  Starting : Those who work in ELL positions must earn an ELL endorsement in 3 years  Establish a paraeducator board to implement program  Career ladder - Advanced paraeducator position  Community and technical college programs updated  Teachers and principals trained how to effectively manage a paraeducator

Miscellaneous legislation

Implement Initiative 1351  School support personnel are the most significant beneficiaries  Not enough space, must hire “school-based personnel”  New formulas provide funding for 18,000 FTE (21,000) classified employees  Work with the legislature to implement  Support spreading out implementation over longer period (more than 4 years)

Anti-union legislation – there have been many…  SB 5045 – setting up procedures for stopping dues payments  SB 5226 – union finances made public  SB 5237 – more days to decertify union  SB 5329 – open negotiations to public  SB 5602 – no release time for union representatives  SB 5854 – unions send digital collective bargaining agreement to PERC

BAB & Child Nutrition Equipment Grants  HB 1164 – Grants for new equipment if programs are committed to enhance nutrition and access to healthier foods  HB 1295 & SB 5437 – Breakfast after the Bell (BAB) requirement in schools with high poverty (70%)

$12 Minimum Wage  HB 1355 – Implement over 4 year period  $10.00 on January 1, 2016  $10.50 on January 1, 2017  $11.00 on January 1, 2018  $12.00 on January 1, 2019  school year  $986,000  2,274 positions  555 FTEs

2/3 Funding to Education  SB 5063 – 2/3 of new State revenue going to education  Early education  K 12  Higher education

PSE ideas for funding education  Property tax swap  Raise State Property Tax to the Maximum Allowed - $3.60 per thousand  Calendar Year 2014 is $2.30 per thousand  Allows school districts to reduce local levy reliance  Increase percentage of new revenue for education funding – SB 5063  Extend full implementation year of McCleary funding  Current full funding year is the School Year  Extend full implementation year of Initiative 1351  Current full funding year is the school year