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King George schools present strategic-plan progress, cite staffing, literacy and attendance challenges
Summary
Superintendent and division leaders reported progress across four strategic goals — employee investment, instructional quality, communication and safety — highlighting pay steps, a new K–12 math curriculum, expanded student supports and rising chronic absenteeism.
King George County Schools leaders updated the school board Monday on progress toward the division’s four-part strategic plan, reporting a mix of personnel gains, curriculum rollouts and student-support programs while flagging attendance and capacity challenges.
The update covered investments in employees, instructional initiatives, communications work and safety and wellness programs across the division. Division staff emphasized last year’s salary adjustments, new curriculum material and technology purchases, expanded counseling and intervention services, and ongoing facilities and staffing pressures.
Superintendent Daniel Boyd introduced the strategic-plan presentation and turned the floor to division leads. Amanda Yuzirsky, director of human resources, said the division provided a 1% cost-of-living adjustment plus step increases last year that in most cases amounted to roughly a 3% raise for employees, and that leaders addressed long-standing salary compression at the step-10 level. Yuzirsky said the board-approved update to regulation GCB-R now gives more credit for military experience (one year credit for every two years of…
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