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Parkway teacher tells board inflation has eroded pay and asks for a recovery plan
Summary
A Parkway South High teacher told the board that inflation has cut starting and mid-career teacher pay since 2019–20, urging better communication and a plan to restore competitiveness; the board did not vote on pay but acknowledged fiscal pressures during budget discussion.
Drew Jennings, a teacher at Parkway South High School, told the Parkway Board of Education on Nov. 12 that teacher pay has been “gutted since COVID” and urged the board to develop a plan to restore salaries to pre-pandemic purchasing power.
Jennings said that a 2019–20 starting salary of $43,000 would equal roughly $54,300 in today’s dollars using Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation adjustments, while the district’s…
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