New School Board President may take second look at pay schedule

Lewly appointed school board president, Lupita Fuentes, may be re-examining the current salary schedule. The current pay schedule has school employees being paid once a month, which has been met with resistance by the majority of employees since its adoption last year. The EPISD School Board of Trustees adopted the new measure ahead of across the board cuts and austerity measures. Although Ms. Fuentes has instructed the appropriate departments to re-examine the pay schedule, it does not mean that the school district will revert to the twice-monthly payment method. The current pay schedule allows for interest-accruing savings for the district, a cost saving method that may be hard to overlook by trustees.