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Socorro ISD says reporting errors inflated staff pay figures; district files corrected data with TEA
Summary
District officials told the board they found FTE and salary reporting errors tied to an ERP upgrade during a migration to Skyward, have submitted corrected data to the Texas Education Agency and adopted a corrective-action plan to prevent recurrence.
Socorro Independent School District officials told trustees on April 16 that they identified and corrected discrepancies in the district’s TAPER submission and have reported the corrected file to the Texas Education Agency.
District leaders said the errors first showed up in January as an anomaly in full-time-equivalent (FTE) counts and later affected salary figures. The problem stemmed from an upgrade to the Munis ERP near the end of the district’s transition to Skyward; changed data tables caused some FTEs to be reported as less than 1.0 and created duplicate salary records in the reporting extract.
The misreported FTEs led to inflated salary entries in the published TAPER report because some teacher salaries were calculated against an understated FTE.…
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