The Blue Earth Area School Board met Monday evening and at their meeting approved the miscellaneous pay rates for the 2024-25 school year.
One change is the rate substitute teachers will be paid. Superintendent Mandy Fletcher says in 2021 the district implemented an incentive program, which was a sliding scale, giving teachers more pay, the more days the subbed in a month.
Fletcher says the scale they established wasn’t getting the results they had hoped for. The district didn’t get any more substitutes and the different pay rates for the same sub cause lots of work and tracking in the office, so the decision was made to do away with the sliding scale.
The board approved that substitute teachers will now be paid $175 per day.