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24-25 General Fund Budget

Info need to know 24-25 General Fund Budget
Info need to know24-25 General Fund Budget

Board approves FY 24-25 Budget Board approves FY 24-25 Budget

The FY 2024-2025 General Fund Budget was approved at the June 25 Board Meeting. Click here to review the approved budget.

Does the budget include salary increases for teachers? Does the budget include salary increases for teachers?

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Yes!

The budget includes funding for a salary increase for all teachers. The district’s teacher salary schedule increased the starting salary for first year teachers from $44,321 to $50,000, a 12.8% increase. The budget eliminated the teacher salary pay bands that started at year 25 so that every year teachers will see an increase in their salary. The teacher salary schedule also decreased from 45 years to 35 years to be more aligned with our district’s demographic. Funding was also approved for the teacher salary schedule step increase.

Does the budget include salary impacts for classified staff? Does the budget include salary impacts for classified staff?

Yes!

Funding was included in the budget to implement recommendations from the classification and compensation study designed to address salary disparities related to classified positions and to make Richland Two more competitive with our surrounding districts. More information related to the impact of this study will be shared in coming weeks.

When will salary schedules for FY25 and additional information be available? When will salary schedules for FY25 and additional information be available?

Next month!

The HR and Finance departments are finalizing the details for the FY 25 salary schedules. The salary schedules and information related to the classification and compensations study will be shared beginning the week of July 8th.

Does the budget include supports to address working conditions? Does the budget include supports to address working conditions?

Yes!

The budget includes:

  • Increased Learning Support Services to address the social emotional needs of students by providing more than $1.2 M in funding for social workers, psychologists, school counselors, attendance interventionists, nurses, and health room aides in targeted schools.
  • Increased funding of $185,000 to provide instructional teacher support for new teachers, international teachers, and alternatively certified teachers.
  • Increased funding of approximately $1.1M targeted on academic interventions for students in need of academic assistance. This allows the district to employ academic interventionists at targeted schools and to increase the schools’ at-risk budgets.

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Increased support for our specialized population of students:

The budget includes increased funding of $1,064,000 to provide additional teachers and assistants in our special education classrooms and to support our multilingual learners.

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