<p>The pay rate is hourly - this fact has been published many times and it not being disputed. The dispute is the actual hourly rate - the union wants $90 per hour and the school board says that it can only pay $30 per hour for the additional work. Frances Gallo is the Central Falls School Superintendent:</p>
<p>"Gallo said she offered to pay teachers $30 an hour for two additional weeks of training in the summer. Gallo also said she would try to find grant money to pay teachers for 90 minutes a week of after-school planning time, also at $30 an hour.</p>
<p>But she says she has no extra money to pay for other changes she is pushing for, including lengthening the instructional day by 25 minutes, so teachers work 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. instead of 7:50 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. She wants teachers to formalize a rotating tutoring schedule, so a teacher is available to help students for an hour before or after school, and she wants teachers to have lunch with students one day a week.</p>
<p>Right now, they have no duties, Gallo said. But I dont want them to see lunch as a duty. I want them to establish true relationships with not a few students, but all students.</p>
<p>The average teachers salary at the high school ranges between $72,000 and $78,000 a year, because most are at the districts top step, Gallo said.</p>
<p>Union officials have been pushing for $90 per hour and want the district to pay for more of the additional responsibilities." - Providence Journal, February 11</p>