Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Aside from class size reduction staffing, mandated 43.5 special education
positions were funded, including teachers, paraprofessionals, school counselor,
social worker, and an OT/PT therapist.
The School Board recognizes that determining proper funding levels for O&M
infrastructure projects, school buses, technology (computer hardware and
software applications), and textbooks is necessary and will continue to seek
funding these items in future budgets.
BASELINE
Compensation
The FY 2017 funded the final 1% salary increase of the state-mandated 5% VRS
employer contribution as well as the .7% increase in the VRS employer
contribution rate required by the state
Little progress was made in the area of the re-allocation of resources (among schools
with large student populations based on the different types and number of student
populations). The Staffing Standards adopted by the Board provides some guidance for
this area of concern to the Board but the Class Size Reduction goals were the main
budget driver for the FY 2017 Budget.
Funding for tuition reimbursement and other professional development support All
Century Skills and educational initiatives. The Board supports restoring professional
development funding and has taken some initial steps in this regard but additional work
should be done in the area.