WARSAW —Warsaw Community Schools Administration, the Warsaw Board of School Trustees and the Warsaw Community Education Association are announcing the passage of a teachers’ contract effective for the 2016-2017 school year. While enrollment and state funding have stayed relatively flat for Warsaw Community Schools, all parties involved have actively and efficiently limited spending, thus creating the fiscal environment supporting this contract.

WCS has been under the new Indiana contract laws for four years. Indiana state code limits pay increase to only educators receiving an effective or highly effective evaluation rating during the 2015-2016 school year. For the eligible certified WCS teachers, the maximum increase possible will be $600 on the base salary or roughly a 1.25 percent increase on the current average salary.

WCS is still awaiting ISTEP results. These results partially account for teacher evaluation data as prescribed by Indiana law. Increases retroactive to the start of the 2016-2017 school year will occur once finalized data is provided by the Indiana State Board of Education.