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Ore City ISD pauses 2025–26 compensation package after presentation
Summary
The board considered a multi-part compensation proposal with targeted raises, stipends, and frozen items but tabled the motion; the package includes insurance increases, raises for paraprofessionals and select positions, teacher step raises, and uncertainty over federal fund availability.
The Ore City ISD superintendent presented a multi-part compensation proposal for 2025–26 that included adjustments to district-paid insurance (rising "from $320 to $390"), targeted raises and stipends, and changes to teacher step schedules. After discussion, a motion to approve the package, made by Virginia Harris and seconded by Chris Barton, was tabled.
Details listed in the minutes show multiple line-item changes: transportation received a $0.50 hourly raise; child nutrition staff a $3,000 raise; two new director positions will receive stipends; paraprofessionals a $3,000 raise; library, nurse and counselor pay scales were removed and replaced with a new scale that gives those roles an estimated $5,000 increase; teachers in years 0–2 receive a step-only raise, years 3–4 receive $4,000, and years 5–31 receive $8,000. The trainer stipend would increase from $2,000 to $3,000; the girls equipment coordinator position shows a $5,000 allocation; extra-duty day stipends are frozen and the Master’s and Doctorate stipend was removed. The minutes also note federal Title II, III and IV funds are currently frozen and that the district is budgeting for 705 ADA for 2025–26; 21 employees will not receive retention checks due to docks. The motion to adopt the compensation package was tabled and the minutes do not record a subsequent vote or schedule for reconsideration.
