This portal has been created to keep the Belmont community updated about the Belmont School Committee's (BSC) ongoing collective bargaining negotiations with the Belmont Education Association (BEA) for a 2025-2028 successor contract. We will update these pages regularly, and encourage you to check it often.

April 17, 2025

Dear Belmont Public Schools Community,

On Monday, we presented salary proposals to the Belmont Education Association (BEA) for Units A (educators), C (administrative assistants and clerical aides), and D (professional aides, classroom assistants, tutors, campus monitors, and building-based substitutes) that would ensure our most experienced teachers remain among the highest paid compared to comparator school districts and raise salaries for newer teachers so they are competitive with, or exceed, those in comparator school districts. 

Our proposed salary scale is fair internally, among our staff, and competitive externally, compared to other school districts. Our proposed salary scale is good for educators by offering fair, competitive pay; good for the district by helping to attract newer, less experienced educators, and good for students by promoting sustainability by maintaining staffing levels and ensuring consistent support in schools.

You can see details of our salary proposal on the “Artifacts” page of our Collective Bargaining Public Portal. We hope that this restructured approach is acceptable to the BEA. 

At our upcoming bargaining session, we plan to present proposals on instructional/learning time and professional time. We and the BEA have identified these areas as shared priorities. Belmont currently has the shortest school day permitted by law and the shortest work year among our nine comparator communities. We see an opportunity—through these negotiations—to increase valuable teaching and learning time. We believe this will support improved outcomes for all students.

Meg Moriarty, Ed.D., BSC Chair