The Board of Education today approved a negotiated agreement for Fiscal Year 2022 with the Association of Educational Leaders (AEL), the bargaining unit which represents building administrators, coordinators, and special assistants.
The agreement with AEL provides the following in the current school year:
- One full step increase to all eligible Unit II employees.
- A 1 percent cost-of-living adjustment to all Unit II employees.
- A back step for all eligible Unit II employees who were in Unit II in the 2011-2012 school year, have been employed continuously by AACPS since that time, have not changed bargaining units or have changed units without an appropriate placement on the salary scale per a bargaining unit agreement, and have not reached the top of the salary scale.
- A mid-year back step for all eligible Unit II employees who were in Unit II in the 2012-2013 school year, have been employed continuously by AACPS since that time, have not changed bargaining units or have changed units without an appropriate placement on the salary scale per a bargaining unit agreement, and have not reached the top of the salary scale.
The agreement was approved by AEL members on November 19, 2021.
The Board has now approved agreements with three of its four employee bargaining units. With respect to the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County (TAAAC), the Board and TAAAC have moved forward with negotiations impasse proceedings in accordance with state law and are currently in mediation in an effort to reach an agreement.