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Georgetown ISD details extra staffing for five ‘high‑priority’ campuses; board debates performance pay
Summary
District leaders outlined targeted additions — assistant principals, interventionists, instructional coaches and Literacy First staff — for five high‑priority schools, estimated at more than $1 million. Trustees pressed for outcome measures and questioned incentive design and recruitment effectiveness.
Georgetown ISD leaders on Dec. 1 laid out a plan to add staff and targeted supports at five campuses the district labeled “high priority,” and presented a preliminary cost estimate and possible performance-pay incentives for campus leaders.
Speaker 1, opening the board workshop, described the district’s high‑priority label as based on ‘‘opportunity gaps’’ and family or community challenges that require additional supports. The slide packet shown to trustees listed enrollments, percentages and counts for students eligible for free or reduced‑price lunch, special education counts, assistant principals (APs), instructional coaches, interventionists, behavior‑support staff and the presence of a Literacy First program.
The district said the five high‑priority campuses would receive a combined increase of staff that includes four additional assistant…
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