People wanting to teach summer school in Community R-VI this year will notice a bigger salary.
The Community R-VI board at its April 15 meeting approved an increase in pay for those employees. …
This item is available in full to subscribers.
We have recently launched a new and improved website. To continue reading, you will need to either log into your subscriber account, or purchase a new subscription.
If you are a digital subscriber with an active subscription, or you are a print subscriber who had access to our previous website, then you already have an account here. Just reset your password if you have not yet logged in to your account on this new site.
If you are a current print subscriber and did not have a user account on our previous website, you can set up a free website account by clicking here.
Otherwise, click here to view your options for subscribing.
Please log in to continue |
People wanting to teach summer school in Community R-VI this year will notice a bigger salary.
The Community R-VI board at its April 15 meeting approved an increase in pay for those employees. The pay will move to $31 an hour, which is about a 25% increase.
“We have not had an increase in eight years,” Superintendent Chad Harter said.
The board approved certified (contracted) and classified (non-teacher) salary schedules for 2025-26. For the certified staff, the board approved coming into alignment with Senate Bill 727, which provides that a teacher with a master’s degree with 10 years experience will make a minimum of $47,000 annually. For 2025-26, the district will be at $46,725.
At the meeting, the board saw a presentation from the FFA Demonstration Team, which does a parliamentary procedure competition. The teacher, FFA adviser Stacy French, gave the topic to the students.
“So there’s seven kids, and one of them acts like the leader of the meeting, or the president, and runs the meeting and then they’re given a topic,” Harter said, noting they debate the topic and then eventually vote and there’s usually an amendment involved, too. “It’s much like what you would see from a parliamentary procedure process like Congress or a board meeting. It was almost like our board watching itself transact business. It was a good demonstration.”
Also at the meeting, the board approved a contract with Mike Unger, who formerly worked for the district as a bus mechanic, and the district wanted to hire him back as a bus maintenance employee and help with the bus mechanic, who also conducts work on campus. Unger was hired to take some bus work off his plate.
High school discipline reports have been down over the past few months, and Harter credited that to principal Bob Davies. And attendance in the elementary has been up significantly, and Harter credited principal Jessie Mommens.
Harter also reported that Gina Sachs was hired to be an English teacher at the high school and Cheri Buckner to be a special education teacher at the junior high school.
High school graduation is at 3 p.m. May 18 at the high school.
