Peru ESD 124

If the grievance is not resolved at step 3 within the time limits provided, the grievance shall proceed to a fourth step of impartial, binding arbitration.

2024-25 Salary Schedule Appendix A. BA column, Step 1: $38,948

The salary schedules for the 2024-25, 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28 contract years are set forth in Appendix A of this Agreement.

Three (3) days of bereavement leave shall be granted for each case where death has occurred in the immediate family... However, in the event of the death of the teacher's parents, children, spouse, or domestic partner, the teacher shall be granted five (5) bereavement days per incident without loss of pay.

In the event a teacher is docked or must reimburse the District for a day's work, the divisor shall be 180.

Employees who are regularly scheduled to work thirty (30) or more hours for each regular work week and are otherwise eligible under the provisions of the District's plans as selected by the Board, may elect to participate in the District's group health, dental, and vision insurance program.

Beginning with the 2024-25 insurance year... the Board will contribute for each employee the following percentages to health, dental and vision premium: eighty-five (85) percent for employee coverage, seventy-five (75) percent for employee plus child coverage, sixty (60) percent for employee plus spouse coverage and forty (40) percent for employee plus family coverage.

Language specific to the teacher evaluation process is found in the Peru Elementary School District 124 Teacher Evaluation Plan, which is incorporated into this Agreement by reference. The evaluation plan shall be in accord with the requirements of Article 24A of the Illinois School Code.

First step: building principal. Second Step: superintendent or designee. Third Step: Board. Fourth Step: impartial, binding arbitration.

Full-time employees who initially elect the single Health Savings Account (HSA) option shall receive a $1,000 HSA contribution for the first year of election, and a $750 contribution each additional year of participation in the HSA. Full-time employees who initially elect one (1) of the family HSA options shall receive a $2,000 HSA contribution for the first year of election and a $1,250 contribution each additional year of participation in the HSA.

The normal teacher workday shall not exceed seven (7) hours and twenty (20) minutes, with the Parkside student attendance day lasting six (6) hours and fifty (50) minutes and the Northview student attendance day lasting six (6) hours and thirty (30) minutes.

The salary schedule allows for a horizontal movement in blocks of eight (8) credit hours for a Bachelor's Degree until the final Bachelor's Degree lane which is twelve (12) credit hours and blocks of nine (9) credit hours for a Master's Degree.

The Board agrees to cover each teacher on contractual service with Term Life Insurance in the amount of $50,000.

The Board will reimburse each teacher up to $1,000 or fifty (50) percent of the total tuition cost, whichever is less, upon successful completion of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) program and attainment of the master teacher certificate. Any teacher who holds a master teaching certificate shall receive an additional annual payment of $750 so long as the master teaching certificate is maintained.

Severance pay available for retiring teachers with 16+ years of service submitting four-year letter of intent; $10,000 (2024-25 submission), $5,000 (2025-26 submission), or 3% of base pay × intent years

The Board shall grant three (3) days of personal leave without loss of pay. No reason for such leave need be given.

The Board shall pick up and pay to the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) up to the current 9.4 percent employee contribution.

The Board shall pick up and pay to the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) up to the current 9.4 percent employee contribution.

Once dismissal has been determined according to the provisions of Section 24-12 of the Illinois School Code, then written notice is to be mailed to the teacher and also given to the teacher either by certified mail, return receipt requested, or personal delivery with receipt at least forty-five (45) days before the end of the school term together with a statement of honorable dismissal and the reasons therefore.

Salary schedule shows lanes: BA, BA+8, BA+16, BA+24, BA+36/MA, MA+6, MA+18, MA+27, MA+36 in Appendix A

Salary schedule shows steps 1 through 30 in 2024-25 Appendix A

Each full-time teacher shall be credited with a sick leave reserve of thirteen (13) days of full pay for each year, eighteen (18) days per eleven (11) to twenty (20) years of eligible service to the District, and twenty-four (24) days per twenty-one (21) plus years of eligible service to the District.

Sick leave may accumulate to an unlimited number of days.

Teachers shall be paid in twenty-six (26) payments, except in certain years when twenty-seven (27) payments will occur. The Board's payment of the TRS contribution as provided above shall be in addition to all allowable TRS salary items earned, resulting in each teacher's total TRS creditable earnings.

Teachers shall be allowed tuition reimbursement of fifty (50) percent of the tuition cost up to a maximum of $225 reimbursement per credit hour for pre-approved graduate level courses taken from an accredited institution for professional advancement in the field of education.

Employees who are regularly scheduled to work thirty (30) or more hours for each regular work week and are otherwise eligible under the provisions of the District's plans as selected by the Board, may elect to participate in the District's group health, dental, and vision insurance program.