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Cumberland County School Board approves single certified salary scale; administrators excluded from 2% raise this year
Summary
At a special called meeting the Cumberland County School Board voted to place all certified employees on a single salary scale and to delay a 2% increase for administrators for the 2025-26 budget year; board members directed staff to return to a work session to finalize administrator percentages.
At a special called meeting, the Cumberland County School Board voted to place all certified employees on a single salary scale and to defer a proposed 2% increase for administrators for the 2025-26 budget year.
Board members said consolidating scales would simplify payroll calculations and reduce complexity. Board chair (unnamed in the transcript) moved the measure "that we put all the certified people on 1 scale with some caveats... for this year certified administrators wouldn't go with 2% increase." The motion was seconded and opened to discussion.
The board chair said the two scales had grown "wider and wider apart" and…
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