McAllen ISD staff survey: compensation ranks top concern; safety and student achievement score higher
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Summary
The district’s joint professional committee reported results from a new 35-question employee survey: compensation and benefits ranked highest among staff concerns, while reported school safety and student academic achievement rated high.
McAllen Independent School District leaders and the Joint Professional Consultation Committee on Tuesday presented results from a newly redesigned employee opinion survey of professional staff and instructional assistants.
The survey was developed and distributed collaboratively (Qualtrics platform) and shortened from about 70 questions to 35 to reduce fatigue. Approximately 1,421 staff began the survey and 1,261 fully completed it; participants included classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, campus administrators and other instructional staff.
Why it matters: district leaders said the results will guide priorities for human-resources planning, professional development and compensation decisions that the board will consider during upcoming budget workshops.
Key findings Twyla Figueroa, chair of the Joint Professional Consultation Committee, said staff rated ‘‘compensation and benefits’’ as the top workplace priority, followed by job security, meaningful work, safe working conditions and coworker relationships. Overall category averages clustered around ‘‘agree’’ on a five-point scale, but compensation scored lower than most other categories.
Doctor Canales, Chief Human Resources Officer, and committee members said school safety and student-academic-achievement indicators were relatively high (safety averaged about 4.3 on the 5-point scale; student academic achievement averaged ~4.18). The school board and superintendent category scored lower than others (average about 3.16), which committee members and human-resources staff attributed largely to compensation concerns in open-ended responses.
Administration response Trustees heard that district leadership already has ongoing budget work addressing compensation and benefits and that the survey will inform further efforts. The committee said open-ended questions asked two targeted prompts: what makes your campus a great place to work and what could be improved, so campuses would receive constructive and actionable feedback.
Ending Trustees thanked JPCC and staff for their work; administrators said they will use the results for continuous-improvement planning and report back on action items tied to the survey.
