The Indian Prairie District 204 school board this week approved 3.9% raises and renewed the contracts for administrative and non-bargaining employees in the district for the 2025-26 school year.
These raises are less than the cost of the increase for teacher salaries per the district’s collective bargaining agreement, according to Monday’s meeting agenda for the board.
The district employees receiving these raises next year are administrative employees and non-bargaining employees, which, according to Monday’s agenda, includes occupational therapists, physical therapists, registered nurses, administrative assistants, business support staff, HR support staff, tech support staff, communications support staff, science lab technicians, piano accompanists and facilitators of Title I funding, a source of federal money distributed based on a district’s low-income population.
Teachers in the district are currently in a negotiated agreement through 2026, the district’s Chief Human Resources Officer Carey Beth Harry confirmed in an email to The Beacon-News. The district did not present recommendations for teacher raises to the board on Monday, and Harry noted that discussion about raises for teachers are handled through the negotiation process.
In 2022, the school board approved a four-year contract for District 204 teachers. The terms of the agreement included a one-time $1,500 bonus and 5% raises in the first two years of the contract, followed by salary bumps equal to the Consumer Price Index capped at 5% for the last two years of the contract.
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