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Lawmakers debate using supplemental-pay authority to retain teachers; multiple stakeholders urge clarity and safeguards
Summary
Senator Spencer Deary presented Senate Bill 249 to give school corporations more flexibility to use supplemental pay to recruit and retain teachers in high‑need subjects; superintendents, principals and teacher organizations testified with concerns about sequencing, transparency, and existing district reserves.
Senator Spencer Deary presented Senate Bill 249 to the Senate Education and Career Development Committee, saying the bill is intended to help school corporations recruit and retain teachers in high‑need fields by enabling districts to exempt a portion of state funding from negotiations and reserve it for supplemental pay.
Deary said the proposal would allow a school corporation to set aside part of its state funding for supplemental payments “on the condition that doing so is in the best interest of students.” He said the aim is to give districts tools to pay…
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