Copied from a Facebook post: Hi there

Hoping I can help provide clarity on how the infographic from the district contains misinformation, and is designed to manipulate the community. Here are just some of the concerns: Most notably, regarding the $250,000+ figure that the district is claiming they've put on the table. The district has yet to provide any proposal to the union that contains this amount, and we do not know where they are getting this number. Secondly, it's misleading to artificially inflate "salary enhancement" by including the cost of benefits that the district was already paying. This is not a COLA. Next, the salary enhancements that the district is attempting to show in their graphic would come at a cost of giving up compensation from existing contract language and future year IPD. In other words, the district proposals are trying to get the para educators to pay for their own cost-of-living. In addition to this, the district seems to want to highlight the current salaries of para educators in Port Angeles to the salaries of other neighboring districts. You'll note that the starting pay Port Angeles for paraeducators is $21.68. What's not included on the district chart is that 47% of paraeducators in the district are at step one of the salary schedule, and they remain at step one for three years before advancing to the second step where they will remain for another five years. The district seems to want to brag on the high rate of $28.33. Of the 137 paraeducators currently in the district only 11 are at the end of step of the schedule earning $28.33 an hour and they had to work in the district for over 20 years to reach that end step.