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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="6-1009" title_number="6" title_name="Teachers and Other Personnel" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Career Ladder for Educators">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, beginning on July 1, 2022, teacher salary increases associated with the career ladder shall at a minimum include the following:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Becoming an NBC teacher – $10,000 salary increase;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An NBC teacher teaching at a low–performing school as identified by the county board – $7,000 salary increase;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Becoming lead teacher – $5,000 salary increase;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Becoming distinguished teacher – $10,000 salary increase;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Becoming professor distinguished teacher – $15,000 salary increase; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Becoming a distinguished principal – $15,000 salary increase.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The teacher salary increases under paragraph (1) of this subsection do not apply to paragraph (1)(iii) through (vi) of this subsection until § 6–1002(a) of this subtitle becomes effective as recommended by the Department and approved by the Accountability and Implementation Board.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Salary increases associated with maintenance of an NBC are subject to collective bargaining in accordance with § 6–408 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State share for the following salary increases provided under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall not exceed the following amounts:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Earning a first maintenance of NBC – $8,000 salary increase;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Earning a second maintenance of NBC – $7,000 salary increase; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Earning a third maintenance of NBC – $6,000 salary increase.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a teacher is eligible for more than one salary increase under subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the teacher shall receive all salary increases that apply.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A teacher that receives a salary increase under subsection (a)(2) of this section for teaching at a low–performing school may not lose that salary increase while teaching at the school even if the school ceases to be low–performing.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>On or before July 1, 2024, each county shall demonstrate to the Accountability and Implementation Board established under § 5–402 of this article that, during the period between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2024, teachers in the county received a 10% salary increase above the negotiated schedule of salary increases between the public school employer and exclusive representative for the employee organization.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Beginning on July 1, 2026, the minimum teacher salary for all teachers shall be $60,000.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “total program amount” means the sum of, for each item under subsections (a) and (b)(2) of this section:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The teacher salary increase multiplied by the number of teachers receiving the salary increase; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Rounded to the nearest whole dollar.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The increase in the salary required under subsections (a) and (b)(2) of this section shall be a shared cost between the State and the county in accordance with this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The required State share for each county is the result of the following calculation multiplied by 0.5 and rounded to the nearest whole dollar:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The salary increase multiplied by the number of teachers eligible to receive the salary increase in the prior fiscal year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Divide the result calculated under item (i) of this paragraph by the ratio, rounded to seven decimal places, of local wealth per pupil to statewide wealth per pupil as defined in § 5–201 of this article; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Multiply the result calculated under item (ii) of this paragraph by the result, rounded to seven decimal places, that results from dividing the total program amount by the sum of all of the results calculated under item (ii) of this paragraph for all counties.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The required local share is equal to the total program amount for each county minus the State share calculated under paragraph (3) of this subsection and rounded to the nearest whole dollar.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2023, the State shall distribute the State share of the teacher salary increases as calculated under subsection (f) of this section to each county board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2023, the county shall distribute the local share of the teacher salary increases as calculated under subsection (f) of this section to each county board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2023, the county board shall distribute the State and the local share of the teacher salary increase to the school in which the teacher works.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
