Beginning teacher salaries went up 15% to $48,500 from a year ago, while classified hourly base-rate pay increased by 7% and the administrative salary base rates increased by 4%.
"We want to make sure we bring this whole district back together," Scallon said. "We went through a rough patch with COVID and a lot of the issues that came along with that. I knew one of the first things I had to do was to get out in the community."
"This is the fun part," he said of the upcoming construction. "All the efforts ahead of time culminate to this, and a year from now we'll see a new school pop out and opening."