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Let's Talk Teacher Pay...Austin?!

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I'm Not Sure if You are Aware      On July 6, 2023, from KXAN in Austin, Kelly Wiley reported on a faux pas regarding Austin ISD payroll. According to Wiley, $2000 retention stipend that was used as a "recruitment tool" for newly hired staff was paid out in the spring of 2023 to teachers who should not have received it. The stipend was only supposed to go to newly hired staff who took positions in hard-to-staff areas.  The source she interviewed discusses how teachers are distrusting of Austin ISD payroll since there had been issues prior to this in the Fall of 2022. Austin ISD spokesperson Anne Drabicky states that teachers are given "options for returning the overpayment in a manner that works best for them." That "manner" of repayment consists of a) a full lump sum or b) repayment spread over 4 paychecks. Read the Article Here  Austin ISD Teachers asked to pay back $2000  or Watch the News Story Here  Alright fellow readers, here's the problem -
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#APUSH Scores out and I'm SHOCKED!!

  5 July 2023 Make it Make Sense AP CollegeBoard! I have a long history of teaching history, well maybe not that long, but it has been 11 years so far. Prior to that, I was completing a Master’s degree in history and before that I was completing a Bachelor’s with a double major in history and english. So, yeah, a long time. I taught my first AP U.S. History course this past school year 2022 - 2023 and the APUSH exam scores were just released today. I had high hopes, because my students came back after the exam smiling and saying we had covered everything; were confident in doing well.  Then the grading began, I grade the exam in Tampa almost every year. It was going good, most students were doing well on the SAQ that I was grading. This led me to possibly a false sense of positivity in how my students might have done. Then Trevor Packer, liaison for all of us teachers, states the scores were markedly low this year in APUSH, but WHAP and APEURO was a little higher. Still, I’m positiv
Location: Texas, USA
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