EDUCATION BRIEFS
News from Austin ISD & Austin Community College
HIGHLIGHT AUSTIN ISD During the Austin ISD bond program meeting July 12, AISD confirmed it will ask for a bond to be placed on the ballot in the November election. There were two potential bond proposals suggested: a $1.55 billion option with no tax rate increase and a $2.18 billion option with a $0.01 tax rate increase. Both proposals include several partial or complete campus modernizations, district wide technology upgrades, mental health clinics and secure entry points. The larger of the two bonds would expand the number of modernized campuses modernized from 14 to 21. AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE Staff will propose including a 5%-15% raise for ACC employees and an $18 minimum wage in the 2022-2023 budget during the college’s Aug. 1 board of trustees meeting. The raise would be applied on a sliding scale with the lowest paid employees receiving 15% raises.
Austin ISD school board approves $1.9B budget, raises teacher pay
DISTRICT SALARY INCENTIVES On June 23, the district approved an increase in pay for staff for the 2022-23 school year. annual pay bump for teachers $1,000 for a 2% raise for teachers based on midpoint salaries $6.3M
BY ANDREA ANDERSON
Report sound & Noise complaints on the Mobile app. will pay a $2,000 retention stipend to full-time educators and $1,000 to those who work part time. A $500 stipend will be awarded to teachers who have been with the district for more than five years. Meanwhile, $8 million will go to raise the district’s minimum hourly wage to $16, from $13.50, and another $1 million will go to increas- ing the minimum hourly pay for bus drivers to $21 from $17. Of the entire budget, a portion will go toward an $846 million recapture payment, the highest in the state, district officials said. The funding plan was started by the state Legislature in 1993 and reroutes money from property-wealthy school districts to those that have less. The 74,000-plus student school district’s new budget is about $33 million less than last year, according to district officials.
AUSTIN ISD The district will boost salaries next school year in a move to keep educators from leaving Austin ISD. School district trustees approved June 23 a nearly $1.9 billion budget for the upcoming school year, which results in a $1,000 annual pay bump for teachers and raises wages for other staff. The budget plan sets aside $6.3 million for a 2% raise for teachers based on midpoint salaries, accord- ing to district officials. “We wanted to make sure we didn’t lose ground with teacher pay and we were competitive,” said Edu- ardo Ramos, AISD’s chief financial officer, during the board’s budget meeting. That figure includes financial incentives so teachers will stay. Starting next school year, the district
one-time retention stipend to full-time educators $2,000 one-time retention stipend to part-time educators $1,000
one-time stipends for teachers who have been with AISD five years $500 to raise AISD’s minimum hourly wage to $16, from $13.50 $8M to increase the minimum hourly pay for bus drivers to $21 from $17 $1M SOURCE: AUSTIN ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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Austin ISD Will meet Aug. 25 at 5:30 p.m.
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