![]() “This is the best start to the year on paper that we’ve had in a long time,” he said. This year feels “normal” to him staffing wise. The nameplate on Perry transportation director Patrick Murphy’s desk has a succinct phrase etched beneath his name: “Livin’ The Dream.” If one compares Perry’s bus driver situation this year to last fall, that phrase rings true. Some districts report better staffing outlook “I’m feeling a lot better than we were this time last year,” said Laura Hammack, superintendent of Beech Grove City Schools, which increased average teacher salaries by a little over 6% last fall.īut addressing the problem can require difficult adjustments by educators and parents like Lysell. And districts say some of those changes have worked. Indianapolis Public Schools allocated $15 million in federal emergency funding to entice teachers to stay. ![]() The Metropolitan School District of Pike Township increased salaries for bus drivers. Perry Township’s aforementioned strategy involved eliminating bus routes. School districts have implemented a variety of new strategies to keep workers. But some are still struggling to fill roles that were a perennial challenge to staff even before COVID - such as special education, science, and math teachers. Across Marion County, several school districts report a better staffing outlook for the new school year than around this time last year, as they continue to recover from the staffing crisis exacerbated by the pandemic.
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