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Board adopts major compensation manual updates, raising teacher bases and adding central-office retention stipends
Summary
Harmony Public Schools approved updates to its 2025-26 compensation manual June 21 that raise teacher base salaries in multiple regions, increase hourly and band-level pay for nonexempt and exempt staff, expand stipends for special areas and create a new loyalty/impact stipend for central and district office employees.
The Harmony Public Schools Board on June 21 approved updates to the 2025-26 compensation manual that district staff presented as necessary to remain competitive and to implement teacher-retention allotments from the Texas Legislature.
A district presenter (identified in the transcript as Ebrahim) summarized the legislative "teacher retention allotment" (HB2) structure and the district's proposed salary changes. The presenter said HB2 provides retention increases that vary by district size: for smaller districts the allotment will be $4,000 or $8,000 depending on years of experience, and for larger districts $2,500 or $5,000, with a 5,000-student enrollment threshold driving the categories. The presenter told the board that most Harmony districts exceed 5,000 students, so the district will follow the second (larger-district) group of allotments except for Houston South, which falls below that threshold.
Specific changes presented and approved included regionally…
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