School employees to get 2 percent raise
Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008
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Fayetteville School District employees will get a planned 2 percent salary increase now that the school board knows the fate of the Greenland School District.
The raises had been in question until the Arkansas State Board of Education deferred annexation of the 930-student Greenland district to Fayetteville or another system. The state board voted to delay any annexation action and decided to take over the district instead during a July 14 meeting.
Annexation was expected to cost Fayetteville millions because it would have been required to honor Greenland’s existing contracts, and employee salaries at that district would have been raised to match Fayetteville’s if it had been forced to annex the district. The starting salary for Greenland teachers is about $ 10, 000 less than what Fayetteville pays.
“(The raises ) will be effective with the August payroll, ” Fayetteville Chief Financial Officer Lisa Morstad told the Fayetteville Board of Education on Thursday.
Former Rogers Superintendent Roland Smith was named the new Greenland superintendent Thursday.