The Warsaw Board of School Trustees announce the approval of an increase in pay for administrators and classified (support) staff. While enrollment and state funding have stayed relatively flat for Warsaw Community Schools, all parties involved have actively and efficiently limited spending, thus creating the fiscal environment supporting this increase.
Indiana state code limits pay increase to only educators receiving an effective or highly effective evaluation rating during the 2015-2016 school year. For the eligible certified WCS administrators, a 1.25% increase on the current salaries were approved at the regular board meeting on Monday, October 17, 2016.
Increases for administrative positions are retroactive to the start of the 2016-2017 school year and will occur once finalized district wide school grades are provided by the Indiana State Board of Education.
For classified (support) staff, the 1.25% increase on the hourly rate will be for staff who have completed their probationary cutoff date of after October 1, 2016 and for those with an overall rating of effective and/or acceptable evaluation. This increase will be in effect beginning January 1, 2017. Specific areas of support staff will also be evaluated for incentive programs in the coming months to assist in recruitment and retention.
The increase for the administrators and classified staff is the same percentage as recently ratified for the certified (teacher) contracts approved by the board on Friday, September 23, 2016 and
