Following an open records request earlier this school year I received the average teacher salary per school for the three years 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18. This salary data does not support the claim that more resources are going to the more needy students. The opposite is true!
In 2015/16 there were 19 schools with economically disabled student percentages below 70%. The difference between those 19 schools and the remaining 216 with higher levels of poverty was $423 in 2015/16. By 2017/18, under TEI, this difference had exploded over 9-fold to $3,953!
Obviously teacher salaries are growning much faster in the schools with below 70% of students living in poverty, and growing more slowly in the most poverty stricken schools.
Please join with me in studying the average teacher salaries in each school. The new data for 2018/19 should be available by August.
More details about this study, which includes a link to a Googledocs copy of the three years of salary data used as received from Dallas ISD, can be found at
http://billbetzen.blogspot.com/2018/11/dallas-isd-teacher-excellence.html.
http://billbetzen.blogspot.com/2018/11/dallas-isd-teacher-excellence.html.
Another study on this data was done focusing on the only three schools (Lakewood and Mockingbird Elementary, and Travis Middle School) with over 50% White-non-Hispanic enrollment. The average teacher salary in these three schools had gone up from 2015/16 to 2017/18 an average of $7,771. This has resulted in average teacher salaries that are over $9,500 higher than the average of all the other schools in DISD. The average school in DISD only had an average teacher salary increase 2015/16 to 2017/18 of $3,144.
How can DISD claim that they are focusing more resources on the most needy students?
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