Education
Districts approve 1-2.5% staff raises for next year Despite projected budgetary shortfalls, Lake Travis-area districts each provided 1-2.5% staff compensation increases for the upcoming 2024- 25 school year. The details For the 2024-25 school year, Leander ISD led the pack in local percentage pay raises with a 2.5% increase, followed by Eanes ISD at 2% and Lake Travis ISD at 1%. While district documents show percentage pay increases are lower across the board for all three districts compared to years past, for LTISD, this is the lowest pay raise the district has adopted in over a decade, said Pam Sanchez, assistant superintendent for business services. In their own words Officials in all three districts expressed a desire
LISD names police department chief
Compensation increase details
Projected budget shortfall*
Approved Cost
Eanes ISD
2% $2.1M $2.2M
Lucretia “Shā” Rogers will become Lean- der ISD’s first chief of police. The board of trustees approved Rogers’ hiring as the district’s executive director of safety and security at a May 9 meeting. Rog- ers will transition into the role of police chief once the district receives state approval to launch its own police department, according to district information. What you need to know Rogers has worked for Houston ISD’s police department as the assistant chief of police since 2018, following time as a crim- inal investigator and campus police officer, according to district information. She was previously a patrol deputy for the Precinct 4 Constable’s Office and the Brazos County Sheriff’s Department in Bryan.
Lake Travis ISD
1% $706K
$3.9M
Leander ISD
2.5% $8.13M $13.1M
*ESTIMATED AS OF PRESS TIME, SUBJECT TO CHANGE
SOURCES: EANES ISD, LAKE TRAVIS ISD, LEANDER ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
to offer their staff larger increases and shared their frustration with mounting budget shortfalls amid a lack of state funding, increasing security demands and more. “I would hope that our teachers and staff know that this pay increase ... is not a reflection of how we value them,” LTISD school board President Erin Archer said. EISD plans to adopt its budget at the June 18 meeting, after press time. LISD plans to approve its budget June 27, followed by LTISD in August.
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