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Board approves personnel items and orders payroll/classification corrections; superintendent recommends no paybacks
Summary
The board approved multiple personnel items including resignations, reemployment and new hires, and accepted a staff recommendation to correct teacher salary placements. The superintendent recommended not recouping prior overpayments and to place employees on the correct salary scale for 2025–26.
The Marion County School District Board of Education approved several personnel items and accepted staff recommendations to correct salary placements after an internal audit found classification and experience-credit discrepancies for a number of employees.
Why it matters: The district identified employees who were not placed on the correct experience step or salary scale. Staff recommended adjusting placements for the 2025–26 school year and not seeking repayment of past overpayments.
The board voted 5–0 to approve resignations, personnel recommendations, exceptions payroll and certified-staff reemployment for the 2025–26 school year, as listed on the agenda. Superintendent Foster told the board an audit found examples of both underpayments and overpayments tied to experience verification, changes in state rules on counting service years, and part-time work aggregation. Foster described one example in which an employee had been credited with five additional years of experience; to equalize pay across similarly situated teachers, Foster recommended reassigning employees to the correct scale going forward rather than seeking reimbursement of earlier pay.
Foster said the district plans to scan and store experience-verification documents and otherwise tighten verification processes to prevent recurrence. The superintendent noted an Attorney General opinion and changes in state reporting (MSIS 2) complicated historical calculations for some employees. Board members asked for confirmation that records will be improved; the superintendent said staff will follow up.
The board approved the contract updates and the recommendation to place impacted employees on the correct scale for the 2025–26 school year and not to require repayment of prior salary differences, by a 5–0 vote.
