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April 17, 2019
Organized advocacy scores another victory —
Del Valle employees get pay raises
The Del Valle Education Association and its #FightFor15 campaign were rewarded – and so were all other Del Valle employees – when the school board on Tuesday night approved a new, minimum salary of $16 an hour for bus drivers and $15 an hour for all other support staff. The board also approved across-the-board raises for all school employees, calculated on 3 percent of the district’s mid-point salary, effective with the 2019-20 school year. And bilingual teachers got a $4,500 stipend.
Political Affairs
Locals
Two Lubbock members recognized as award winners
Three Lubbock ISD teachers, including two members of Lubbock Educators Association, are winners of the Frank and Nancy Newton Excellence in Education Award, announced last week by the Beaumont Foundation.
BLOGS
Grading Texas
The teacher is probably the first job description that most of us associate with a public school, but yesterday a school nurse also grabbed my attention when my 13-year-old daughter had a brief, but scary, health-related incident during her middle-school math class in Austin ISD. How many parents take school nurses and other school employees, including teachers, for granted?
SPOTLIGHT
Speaking truth to power
TSTA president Noel Candelaria speaks to Legislators and thousands of educators and education allies during the March to the Capitol rally.
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