By Megan Wehring
Hays CISD pay raises and teacher allocations will be up for a vote next week.
Trustees will consider an amended compensation plan and the hiring of additional teachers for the 2021-2022 school year at Monday’s meeting.
The board will look at increasing the substitute rates and changing the counselor pay schedule.
Administration is recommending an increase to the substitute rate to ensure that guest teachers earn more than the minimum paraprofessional salary. This would raise the guest teacher’s rate to $120 per day compared to the minimum paraprofessional rate of $100 per day.
In addition, the administration recommended that the pay scale for counselor be changed so that a counselor with the school district reach his or her maximum pay in 30 years. Currently, counselors have to work for 40 years before reaching maximum pay. The counselor schedule was aligned so that it matched the teacher scale, which maxes out at 30 years.
The district is also looking to hire more teachers to ensure student-to-teacher staffing ratios per campus and to support the instruction needed for the Homebound Academy and Remote Conferencing programs.
