by Rod Williams - The Metro School Board recently studies teacher pay and says that to boost the salaries of Nashville teachers to match the city's median income would cost more than $100 million a year. Unions applauded the study. If the School Boards plans to ask for the money suggested in the pay plan study that would be money they would need in addition to any other increases in operating cost. That would be an increase request like we have never seen. That would be a whopper of an increase!
The current 2019-2020 operating budget for Metro Schools is $914.5 million which was a 3.2% or $28.2 million increase over the 2018-2019 budget. The school district requested $76.7 million in additional funding or an 8.6% increase over the the then current $886.3 million budget. The year before that, Schools requested a $45.7million increase and only got a $5 million increase.
It should be noted that at the same time the Schools budget has been increasing, the enrollment has been declining despite the population increasing. Currently there are
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