An 8% annual increase every year would double the pay in eight years. Is the plan to raise salaries more every year? Do teachers (and other school employees) also receive automatic upward adjustments based on experience, for example? How about listing what everyone in the MV-Whisman District gets paid now and stands to get paid next school year? Include a column for the cost of benefits and another column for any overtime (paid). Other newspapers have done so. And do the same for current ompensation in the Los Altos Elementary District, the MVLA High School District and the VTA.

"District administrators agreed to also reduce class sizes to 24 to one for kindergarten through third grade" How soon is this supposed to happen and does this mean each K,1st,2nd, and 3rd grade class will not be more that 24 students or are the going to do the whole average thing again like the last 2 years when the K and 1st grade classes were at 27 to 1 ratio.. What does that mean for next year. I know I will be counting the kids on the class lists for each of these grades to see if the DA stayed true to there word on Aug 12th....

@Paytodoublein8years, go to the Transparent California web site to view public employee salaries. For the Agency, enter Mountain View Whisman. Salary info is only available as recently as 2014.

Pay to double in 8 years asked the right question - "Do teachers (and other school employees) also receive automatic upward adjustments based on experience, for example?"

So, does the 8% reflect the total increase in compensation that a teacher will receive from 2016 to 2017, or do all of the various steps increase by 8%, such that the effective raise will be something higher? Not saying a higher raise isn't deserved, but there should be transparency on these points. In addition, is there any data comparing MVSD teacher turnover to the neighboring districts - I do recall data showing that MVSD teachers were paid less than their neighboring counterparts, which at a high level should be brought in line. We should not be losing good teachers to these districts. The money is there - it is just being spent on things that don't matter (e.g., paying off former superintendents)

"BIG, BIG pay raises ahead for MVWSD teachers" if MVLA 5% is "Big" pg. 5 May 6 Voice. :)

@ Common Sense. It all makes perfect sense (if you have studied public school salary schedules before)
The 8% is across the board every cell in the teachers salary schedule. That schedule does include year-to-year built-in salary increases (read down the schedule).

That is not the same as "total compensation" or TCOE (Total Cost Of Employment). The TCOE is what you will see the CBO update at the "First Interim Budget" report.

The TCOE will probably go up MORE than 8%. This is 'cause health care is unlikely to go up much more than 5% and the retirement costs (to STRS) are guaranteed to go up 8% ++ (that percent contribution is going up every year to try to balance the unfunded public pension "obligations")

If just comparing % in the headlines (PAUSD got "12 percent" but that was over last year (retroactive bargaining) next year, and the third year. MVWSD gave 5% (2015-16) + 8 % = 13% over two years. Which is Bigger?

How could we pull off this 'magic'? Please study the more realistic increases in property tax revenues the new CBO is using. No low-balling. Much more in-line with the City estimate and the County Tax office estimates. I do not expect to have "unanticipated" leftovers in the operating funds this year.

SN is one of five trustees of the MVWSD, these are his own opinions