The Daily Reporter
The Branch Intermediate School District trustees approved a new two-year contract with its Branch Intermediate Organization union Wednesday to run through June 30, 2023.
Superintendent Kris Jenkins said the first-year increase is 3%, with a 2.5% increase in 2022-23.
The contract covers all certified and non-certified staff in administration, the Branch Area Career Center and Special Education.
Board Chairman Ken Norton called it “a cooperative process. We arrived at an agreement.”
Those working in the Headstart and early education programs are in a different union.
Recognizing the need to find new employees and to keep current ones with higher wages in the market, the board also adopted a new higher pay scale for its Tier I paraprofessionals, those who aid in classrooms. Jenkins said, “the whole point is to bring our lowest paid people up.”
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