TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Hillsborough County Faculty Board is predicted to approve a lot anticipated raises for academics and workers Tuesday.
The raises have been contingent on the millage tax improve that handed final month, and now the raises will likely be formally allotted.
92% will likely be used to present full-time workers supplemental pay raises, whereas the remaining 8% will go to academic applications.
Tutorial workers resembling academics and directors will obtain an additional $6,000 yearly.
Help workers will obtain $3,000 extra a 12 months.
“Having this extra cash that we will present folks is de facto going to extend the people who find themselves making use of,” mentioned Emma Murray, Assistant Principal at West Tampa Elementary.
The rise is a giant aid for a lot of. “Realizing that I am going to have the ability to be compensated in a method that I can present for myself and my household is de facto necessary,” Murray mentioned.
The president of the Hillsborough Classroom Lecturers Affiliation mentioned the district has been dropping academics to surrounding counties as a result of they’re paying extra. He believes it will assist change that.
“That is actually going to assist cease that and actually maintain our folks right here and have the ability to appeal to a few of our new academics popping out of school,” mentioned Rob Kriete, President of the Hillsborough Classroom Lecturers Affiliation.
The college board assembly is scheduled to start out at 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
The millage begins the 2025-2026 college 12 months and can proceed by way of 2029.
