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Teachers, counselors and principals urge trustees to include non-classroom staff in pay adjustments

5864787 · August 22, 2025
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During public comment, campus principals, academic trainers and school counselors urged the board to extend compensation adjustments or retention incentives to non-classroom and specialist staff after the state's teacher pay changes left several groups out of the new increases.

At Tuesday's opening public comment period, a series of campus leaders and student-support staff asked the Judson trustees to restore pay parity for non-classroom employees left out of state teacher pay increases. Amber Gonzales, who identified herself as a campus principal, told the board she and many administrators were "deeply concerned about the decision to give no raise to principals and assistant principals this year," saying the choice "affects morale, recruitment, and retention." She urged trustees to "invest in us so…

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