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School Administration: Provides $6 million increase in funds to cover stipends for Masters of School Administration Interns.

Adds $16.3 million in recurring funds to the Education Student Accounts for Children with Disabilities Program (ESA+) to bring the annual amount to $47.9 million.Įarly Grades Literacy: Provides $14 million recurring and $600,000 nonrecurring funds to DPI to fund 9 full-time Regional Literacy Coaches and 115 (1 per district) full-time Early Learning Specialists.

Total public allocation will be $176 million in FY 2023-24.

Adds $56 million to the base allocation for Opportunity Scholarships and expands student eligibility for the program from 175% to 200% of Free/Reduced Lunch eligibility (from $89,840 to $103,000/year for a family of 4).

Retired Educators : Receive an additional 1% cost-of-living supplement for 2022-23. If staff salaries are higher than $15/hour, they will receive the 4% increase.Ĭentral Office Staff : Provides 4% raise across the board (was 2.5 % in 2021-23 budget) Starting in 2022-23, non-certified staff will receive a salary increase of 4% or whatever is needed to achieve a minimum hourly rate of $15.00/hour. Annual pay increased by an average of 3.4%. Bonuses range from $15,000 for Top 5% to $1,000 to Top 21% – 50%Īssistant Principals. Due to the pandemic, some schools’ performance dropped, which will reduce salaries for those principals.Īdds Principal Performance Bonuses for principals whose schools perform in the Top 50% of growth. Starting in January 2023, the principal’s placement on the salary scale for 2) growth score status will be set by performance during the prior school year (i.e. A principal’s placement on the principal salary schedule for July – December 2022 is based on 1) size of school, and 2) growth score status for two of the prior three school years. Low Wealth/Small County Signing Bonus : Directs DPI to establish and administer a signing bonus program for eligible teachers and employees in 2022-23 that would match local funds on a 1:1 basis up to $1,000 in state funds. Increased the supplement cap per teacher from $4,250 to $5,000 and increased the tax base eligibility threshold.

Teacher Supplemental Allotments (local salary adjustments): Provides $70 million increase in recurring funds to the allotment created in the 2021-23 budget to pay salary supplements to teachers based on a county’s respective tax base, median household income, and effective tax rate. Requires SBE to establish a “Growth-Based teacher Bonus Program” to provide qualifying teachers with bonuses in January 2023 based on 2021-2022 test data.For teachers with 15 or more years of teaching, the increase is 0% to 2.7% except for teachers in their 24th year who receive a 6.6% raise (mostly due to the step increase).For teachers with 0-5 years of experience, the increase is 6.1% to 7.2%.Provides an average 4.2% salary increase, including step increases based on years of teaching.The annual starting pay base rate increased to $37,000/year.K-12 Education Overall : Provides $11.3 billion for FY 2022-23, which is a 6.4% increase from FY 2021-22. Highlights of the Appropriations Act of 2022 pertaining to education The $2.6 billion sent to the new inflation reserve and savings reserve could have easily covered the funds needed for Leandro. Salary increases did not keep up with inflation. The 2022-23 appropriations fell $443 million short of what the Leandro Plan called for in FY 2022-23 (44% of the total plan left unfunded). As a result, legislators had the difficult decision of whether to vote for a budget that included many problematic provisions. This adjustment to the 2021-23 budget was not open to debate or revision, only an up or down vote. On July 1, the North Carolina House and Senate passed HB 103 and sent it to Governor Cooper, who signed it into law on July 11, 2022. LATEST UPDATES: Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2022

Nc budget 2021 23 update#

Senate Budget Proposal and Conference Report, May 2023 2022 Conference Report Update (HB103/SL2022-74) House Budget Proposal (HB 259), April 2023 Governor Cooper’s Budget Recommendations, March 2023 Members of the 2023 Budget Conference Committee (budget negotiating committee) with contact information (Excel)Ģ023 Highlights of the North Carolina Public School Budget