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Panel urges pay increases for classified school staff as committee hears salary allocation bill
Summary
Senate Bill 5,517 would raise the state's minimum salary allocations for classified school staff and create separate allocations for classified administrative staff; witnesses including school employees and unions testified about recruitment, retention and financial hardship; fiscal estimates run into the hundreds of millions.
The Early Learning & K–12 Education Committee heard Senate Bill 5,517, which would increase the state's minimum salary allocation used to calculate state funding for classified school staff and, beginning in the 2027–28 school year, split the classified category into "classified administrative staff" and "other classified staff" with different allocations.
Alex Fair Fortune, staff to the committee, described the current funding model: the state uses minimum salary allocations paired with staff ratios in the prototypical school model to generate funding. He said the bill increases the classified staff minimum allocation from $56,105 to $67,325 beginning in the 2025–26 school year, rising to $73,384 the following year, and then establishes separate allocations in 2027–28 of $99,164 for…
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