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Updated at 8:36 p.m., Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Study: Half of teachers' actual workday unpaid

By Beverly Creamer
Advertiser Education Writer

If Hawai'i's public school teachers were paid for all the hours they work each day, they'd be making an extra $63,000 a year, according to a new report produced by a joint union and management committee attempting to pin down the number of unpaid hours teachers work on the average every year.

The report is the first of its kind in Hawai'i to look at this issue jointly and was mandated during contract negotiations between the Hawai'i State Teachers Association and the Department of Education two years ago.

According to the Time Committee report released today to a Board of Education committee, teachers work twice as long each day than what they're paid for. The reason is the rising number of demands by the DOE itself as well as the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The report said teachers put in about a 15.5-hour workday but are only paid for their seven-hour contract day.

Committee member Randall Miura, principal of Leihoku Elementary, said many of his teachers typically arrive at school at 6:30 a.m. and don't leave until 5:30 or 6 p.m.

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