Two Options on Table for Durham School Board

The Durham Public Schools administration is bringing two scenarios for the Board of Education to consider at a special meeting on Friday:

• Pay classified workers based only on their state experience, with a minimum 4% increase to their pay over 2022-23 compensation levels, as recommended in a study conducted last year. Maintains adjustments to salary grades.
• Or do away with the compensation study. Maintain 1:1 experience steps and implement an 11% salary increase over 2022-23 compensation levels. This would include a 4% state increase and a 7% locally-funded increase. However, some employees would receive less compensation than stated in a letter sent to classified staff in January.

Funding for both these options is available in the 2023-24 fiscal year budget.

District administrators also considered adopting the experience steps as explored in the compensation study, but determined that the “options cannot be funded by the existing budget, which was approved by the Board of Education in December 2023.”

The board will meet Friday at 3 p.m. the Minne Forte-Brown Staff Development Center, 2107 Hillandale Rd., Room M-1.

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