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Warren County schools present superintendent's proposed budget; focus on teacher pay, reading remediation and positions
Summary
School leaders presented a needs-driven budget that would increase staff compensation, add reading specialists and reinstate student support positions. The school division said it needs roughly $4.2 million more in local appropriation to balance the proposed budget and recommended transferring state textbook funds into a textbook reserve.
Superintendent I. Ballinger and school finance staff presented Warren County Public Schools' superintendent's proposed budget May 20, describing it as a needs-based plan driven by student needs, standards-of-quality requirements and recent changes in enrollment.
Key elements of the proposed budget presented to the Board of Supervisors included: - Compensation and benefits: The division proposed at least a 3% increase for all employees, with additional scale adjustments for some job classes, targeted pay-scale compressions and scale increases for bus drivers, speech therapists, school nurses and others. The proposal also assumed an employer-side health-benefit cost increase of about 10 percent. - Positions and program restorations: The budget asks to reinstate or repurpose held positions, including reading specialists (two repurposed positions to ensure each elementary and middle school has a reading specialist),…
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