Seminole County schools, teachers reach tentative pay agreement
Veteran Seminole teachers could get up to $3,000 more under a tentative pay deal, but probationary teachers are excluded.
Seminole County Public Schools and the Seminole Education Association reached a tentative agreement on pay and contract language June 24, setting up raises for veteran teachers while leaving probationary teachers out of the package. Superintendent Serita Beamon and union president Thomas J. Bugos II were pleased with the deal, which still needs ratification before it takes effect.
For full-time classroom teachers with at least 10 years of Florida public-school experience, the proposed schedule would give teachers with 30 or more years a recurring $3,000 increase, those with 25 to 29 years $2,500, teachers with 18 to 24 years $2,210, those with 14 to 17 years $1,500, and teachers with 10 to 13 years $1,000. For teachers early in their careers, the package offers no salary increase.
The agreement adds recurring salary increases for instructional staff based on evaluation categories, with larger amounts for highly effective and effective employees and separate figures for grandfathered staff. It also adds supplement increases for deans, school counselors, social workers, staffing resources specialists, student support services facilitators and speech-language pathologists. The agreement also raises extracurricular supplements for high school band and chorus directors, creates new supplements for assistant band directors, middle-school band directors and middle-school chorus directors, increases all other extracurricular supplements by 2.5 percent and gives Title I teachers a $100 supplement at eligible schools.
Seminole County schools are balancing pay, staffing and enrollment losses inside a formal budget cycle that runs July 1 through June 30. The district published a nearly $17 million deficit for 2024-25 after enrollment dropped from a projected 63,501 students to 61,921, and by then the 2026-27 budget gap was $26.4 million tied in part to a projected loss of about 2,000 students. By May, the district’s final tally of job cuts had reached 314 positions.
On June 17, the district expected a recurring $3 million shortfall after $27.1 million in cuts, while the School Board of Seminole County approved a proposed property-tax rate of $297.50 per $100,000 of taxable value, or 5.223 mills including local supplements.
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