Superintendent'sProposed Budget

• An additional salary increase of 3.4% to attract and retain classified staff - examples of classified staff include instructional assistants, custodians, administrative assistants, bus drivers and aides, mechanics, maintenance staff, school nutrition, and school security officers.

• Uncluster the salary scale after 15 years of experience (teachers, diagnosticians, psychologists, and therapists). This will be the first step in addressing the clustering of years experience on salary scales. This is a multi-year initiative.
  
  
• Increase the teacher starting salary to $52,000 in order to attract new teachers to Frederick County Public Schools.
  
  
• Provide teachers with 25+ years of experience an additional $5,000. We lose teachers at 15+ years of experience to other higher paying districts. This is the first step in addressing this issue and is a multi-year initiative.
  
  
• Offer $2,000 for hard to fill positions. These positions remain unfilled but are highly needed. Positions include special education, general education, and specialized support positions.
  

• Increase daily substitute rate by $20 from $110 to $130 for degreed substitutes and $95 to $115 for non-degreed substitutes.

• Increase the bus driver perfect attendance bonus from $120 to $130/monthly to encourage bus drivers to report to work due to the shortage of substitutes.

• Local funds will be needed to support Governor Youngkin’s one-time 1% salary bonus initiative for FY25.

The table below outlines the 25 FTEs.

• Dowell J. Howard Center to offer a hybrid night school for up to 50 students.

• CEP will provide free breakfast and lunch for all students. Local funds will be needed.

• Intruder locks on interior doors
• Cameras (interior and exterior)
• Two replacement buses

• 21 school sites

• Over 14,000 students

• 1 Regional Governor's School

• 96 CTE courses offered

• 27 AP classes

• 782 students took at least one dual-enrolled course

• GMU Partnerships: Literacy Committee, Computer Science, Continuous Improvement

• Over 2,500 staff

• Total number of active buses - 183

• Total number of miles traveled each year - 2.4 million

• Total number of breakfasts served - 667,000

• Total number of lunches served - 1,500,000

• $230 million operating budget