Alachua County School District Reaches Tentative Agreement with Employees’ Union On Salaries

GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Public Schools has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing teachers and most of the district’s other employees.

The district’s negotiating team and the Alachua County Education Association (ACEA) tentatively agreed to an across-the-board 3.5% salary increase for instructional and non-instructional personnel. That increase is in addition to the automatic ‘step’ increase those employees receive at the beginning of each school year as long as they completed half of their contract the previous year. The step increase typically averages 1%.

The increase would be retroactive to July 1 of 2023, depending on when each employee’s contract took effect. For example, if an employee’s contract for 2023-24 started the first day of school, the raise would be retroactive to that date.

The salary agreement still has to be ratified by employees, then approved by the School Board. The district is hoping to place the new salary schedule on the School Board meeting agenda for January 16^th if the employee vote is completed in time.

“We appreciate the collaboration between the district and the ACEA to reach this tentative agreement,” said Superintendent Shane Andrew. “I’m sure it’s welcome news for employees. Once the salary schedule is ratified by employees and approved by the School Board, district staff will be working very hard to get those dollars into employee’s paychecks as quickly as possible.”

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