What’s happening?
The district will provide a $2,000 minimum salary increase to teaching positions, including specialists, literacy coaches and instructional coaches in different subjects, among other positions, according to district documents.
The same salary increase will go to the following nonteaching professional positions:
- Secondary admission, review and dismissal facilitators
- Career and college specialists
- Counselors
- Diagnosticians
- Licensed specialists in school psychology
- Occupational therapists
- Orientation and mobility specialists
- Physical therapists
- Speech language pathologists
This will cost the district more than $624,600. This would also place the district at a $1.4 million shortfall for fiscal year 2024-25, according to district documents.
What else?
District officials provided the board the following four salary scenarios:
- Scenario 1: 3% salary increase for teachers and nonteaching professionals, and 1% salary increase for all other staff
- Scenario 2: 3% midpoint increase, which is the average of a salary range, for teachers and nonteaching professionals, and a 1% salary increase for all other staff
- Scenario 3: $2,000 increase for teachers and nonteaching professionals, and 1% increase for all other staff
- Scenario 4: $2,000 minimum increase for teachers and non-teaching professionals, and 1% salary increase for all other staff
What they said
“Scenario 4, while it is the most expensive, it does benefit our teachers and those that are paid on those schedules the most,” said Amber Petree, chief financial officer for FISD. “It leaves 90 days in reserve, and if we do come closer to breaking then that would be more money to put forward into next year, and that would be helpful through a legislative session as well.”
Many board trustees said they are looking forward to providing raises for FISD staff.
“Our staff is who we are,” board trustee Rebecca Hillenburg said at the meeting. “We need to take care of them as best we can.”
