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Boerne ISD weighs pay options: stipends for special education, TRS ActiveCare cost pressures and the long road to teacher‑incentive payouts
Summary
Trustees reviewed compensation scenarios including differentiated special-education stipends, recent pay adjustments, possible state teacher pay increases and rising TRS ActiveCare premiums; staff warned the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) requires a multi-year rollout and staff capacity to implement.
Boerne ISD trustees spent the bulk of their March 3 budget workshop examining staffing and compensation scenarios as staff laid out recent raises, proposed stipends, benefit-cost pressures and the implications of state programs such as the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA).
Staff reported current staffing counts (about 753 teachers, nurses and librarians; roughly 80 professional staff; and about 246 auxiliary employees) and summarized compensation moves already taken this school year: an initial group percentage increase in September by employee group; a $3/hour premium for bus drivers and mechanics in September; a $7,000 "highly specialized" stipend for certain roles; a transportation retention incentive in October; and a $1.25/hour increase for auxiliary/paraprofessional employees in January.…
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