New information from the legislature indicates that current law may not be changed.  If it is not revised, we will pay a partial paycheck on August 31 for actual days worked.  This means teachers and teacher assistants will get a partial check for August, 9 full checks, and a partial check in June.  We will keep you updated.

Please click here for examples of how your pay may look next year.

HISTORY

Prior to 2004, school districts paid employees at the end of each full month of employment.  The 2004 school calendar legislation created a new requirement for school districts to pay teachers a full month’s salary on August 31st. Since passage of that law, TCS has been prepaying teachers and teacher assistants in August for work not performed until September.

The 2011 session of the General Assembly struck some prepayment language that had existed in statute (G.S. 115C-302.1) prior to the 2004 school calendar law, but inadvertently did not strike the specific language added in 2004 that the initial pay date for teachers shall be no later than August 31 and shall include a full monthly payment.  Additionally, the statute now adds language to strictly prohibit prepayment.

NCSBA is currently working on a technical correction (with the assistance of NCASA and NCAE) that would clean up the remainder of the prepayment language contained in G.S. 115C-302.1 and also strike a reference to prepayment in a separate statute.