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Podcast: The Dallas Morning News
Episode: How much do teachers make in North Texas? ... and more news
Description: Of the 52 districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, nearly 40% gave employees no raises for this school year. Steven Poole, the association’s executive director said school districts are cash-strapped. The ones who did give raises had to dip into reserves. Some school districts just couldn’t even do that. District leaders say they are working with strained budgets in part because the Legislature hasn’t increased the base amount of funding provided per-student since 2019. In places that prioritized raises, leaders made tough decisions. In Richardson, for example, school trustees voted to close four campuses to deal with their financial strain...