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Laredo ISD staff review proposed increases to substitute pay, warn cost could push substitute budget above $3 million
Summary
District staff presented a plan to raise substitute pay across categories, estimate the change would add roughly $189,000 to short-term substitute costs and could push total substitute outlays above $3 million; trustees and staff discussed using substitute funding to incentivize hiring into full-time positions and the tradeoffs involved.
Gabby Rogelio, budget presenter for Laredo ISD, told trustees at a June 11 workshop that the district is proposing increases to multiple substitute pay categories and that the estimated additional cost "for just this category of the substitute teachers will be $96,010," she said.
The proposal includes raising short- and long-term substitute teacher daily rates, raising substitute nurse pay from $1.72 to $2.00 per hour, and increasing pay for food-service and custodial substitutes from $9 to $11 per hour. Rogelio estimated that, with those and related adjustments, the district's substitute expenditures would rise from the current reported $2.8 million to more than $3 million.
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