Education
BY CHLOE YOUNG
Georgetown ISD teachers with three or more years of experience and other staff members will receive pay raises next school year through new state funding. Additionally, GISD will provide raises for new and beginner teachers, and reinstate several positions that were previously eliminated from the district’s fiscal year 2025-26 budget. This comes as the GISD board of trustees approved a $6.4 million increase to the district’s FY 2025-26 compensation plan at an Aug. 4 workshop. Costs associated with these raises will be offset by $4.4 million in new state funding from House Bill 2—an $8.4 billion school funding package that passed during the 2025 legislative session. The legislation also created a new $500 million allotment to provide raises for school support staff, according to previous Community Impact reporting. GISD approves staff pay raises
Zooming in
arms around these young teachers and encourag- ing them and telling them, ‘We value you, we see you,’” trustee Anthony Blankenship said. Additionally, the board approved 2% pay raises at midpoint for instructional aides as well as auxiliary, administrative, professional, technical and office staff. GISD instructional coaches will receive $1,200- $1,400 raises, while librarians will receive around $2,000-$2,400 raises, Johnson said.
The district will also raise its starting teacher salary by $500 to $57,000. All teachers will continue to receive a step increase to their salary each school year based on their years of service, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Amanda Johnson said. Superintendent Devin Padavil said the district would not have been able to increase compensa- tion for new and beginner teachers without first balancing its FY 2025-26 budget. “This is Georgetown proactively putting our
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Heading into the 2025-26 school year, officials said GISD will now reinstate the following positions: Adding back positions
This summer, the GISD board approved making $3.73 million in cuts to its FY 2025- 26 budget to avoid adopting a shortfall. According to previous Community Impact reporting, of the reductions: • 48% were focused on the campus level • 32% were districtwide • 6% were to special education programming • 3% were concentrated in athletics The district is projected to have a $176,782 budget surplus for FY 2025-26 after accounting for new HB 2 funding and compensation increases, Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Hanna said.
Interventionist at Williams Elementary
GISD teacher pay raises
Two special education paraprofessionals
While the state funded raises for teachers with three or more years of experience, the district is paying for raises for those with less.
Instructional coach at Forbes Middle
Years of experience
Salary increase $1,000
Receptionist at McCoy Elementary
1-2 3-4
Assistant principal at Mitchell Elementary
$2,500
Principals for Middle School No. 5 and Elementary School No. 12 opening in 2026
5+
$5,000
SOURCE: GEORGETOWN ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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