According to his contract, Craft is eligible to receive a raise this school year.
âThe superintendent shall receive the same percentage salary increase as granted to the category of professional employees (teachers and certified administrators) in 2021,â the contract states.
After the successful 2018 $426 million bond election, in 2019, Craft received a $42,000 raise when his contract was renewed.
Craft is currently one of the highest paid superintendents in the state of Texas.
According to the Herald’s analysis of 2019-2020 data from the Texas Education Agency, his $310,000 annual salary was higher than 96% of the superintendents of Texas public and open enrollment charter schools. See the full list of superintendents’ pay here: rptsvr1.tea.texas.gov/adhocrpt/adpea.html
After recapping the revenue and expenditure amounts thus far for the adopted Fiscal Year 2021 General Fund to the Killeen school board, Killeen Independent School District officials and the board will have a discussion this week about the FY 2022 General Fund.
The adopted budget called for the General Fund to receive $302.2 million in revenue from state sources, $50.7 million from federal sources and $84.7 million from local sources.
State revenue must be budgeted first on various Special Programs expenditures before anything else, district officials said on the slide in the agenda packet.
According to the district, payroll accounts for 80% of the expenditures from the General Fund.
Thatâs apparently not the case â at least from the viewpoint of local candidates.
As the filing period closed Friday for the upcoming May 1 municipal and school board elections, all eight races in the Killeen area are contested.
Moreover, the three local elections â Killeen City Council, Killeen ISD school board and Harker Heights City Council had drawn a total of 25 candidates for eight seats.
Six of those candidates are seeking a single seat â District 1 on the Killeen City Council. With incumbent Shirley Fleming finishing her third term and ineligible to seek reelection because of charter restrictions, a half-dozen hopefuls are campaigning for the seat.