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GALESBURG The District 205 School Board approved administrator pay raises on May 10.
“It’s something that everybody needs as cost of living increases and the raises were in line with the raises we gave teachers,” said school board president Rod Scherpe.
Raises for administrators were not presented to the board until contract negotiations for teachers were complete.
Administrators receiving retroactive 4% salary increases for the 2020-2021 school year are Tiffany Springer, curriculum director; Jennifer Hamm, assistant superintendent for finance and operations; Tom Hawkins, Churchill Junior High principal; Nick Young, Lombard Middle School Principal, Matthew Lingafelter, Churchill Junior High assistant principal; and Eric Matthews, district athletic director.
The contract is pending ratification by the Board of Education and the GEA.
The GEA represents around 500 teachers and educational support staff in District 205 and the Galesburg/ Knox County SPED Coop
Details are scarce at the moment, but if this deal is ratified it will have come to a much swifter conclusion than the last two contract negotiations between 205 and the GEA.
Negotiations in 2014 broke down to the point where educators went on strike for the first two weeks of the school year.
Even the 2019 negotiations, which were considerably more amicable, didn’t end until August.
WGIL will provide more details as they become available.
February 8, 2021
Board members for District 205 were given an update on the plan to bring students back for full in-person learning at their February meeting Monday night.
Last month, the board approved a return-to-learn plan that started bringing students back into classrooms to start the month of February. The hybrid approach saw students in classrooms two days a week while remote learning the remainder of the week.
The plan, according to Superintendent Dr. John Asplund, was to get students back into classrooms every day very quickly, citing lowering grades among students. Dr. Asplund told the board that the plan was to start with a hybrid approach and then move forward fully in-person by February 22nd.