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Edcouch-Elsa ISD outlines $1M+ absence cost, sets internal substitute pool and stricter checks
Summary
School administrators told the board that district employee absences cost the district about $1.03 million and presented a new checks-and-balances process and an 18-person internal substitute pool to limit instructional disruption.
Administrators for the Edcouch-Elsa Independent School District told trustees at their July 28 meeting that district staff absences had a measurable local cost and that the district will implement tighter controls and an internal substitute pool to reduce instructional disruption.
The administration reported that total absences previously cost the district 'a little over $1,000,000' and presented a refined accounting that identified 1,241 absence days not docked with an associated figure of about $10,989,000 in one view of staffing-related costs. The…
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