As school bells get back to ringing and students return to hitting the (electronic) books, educators and staff in elementary, middle and high schools are returning to their classrooms for another year of teaching the community’s youth. If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it was that teachers have a really hard job.
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%.