FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Fort Wayne Community Schools (FWCS) Board of Trustees approved their 2026 Budget and Fort Wayne Education Association (FWEA) teacher salary contract Monday night.
Earlier this month, the FWCS board was presented with the contract, highlighting the salary bump. In it, a salary range for all teachers of $50,000-$83,547.
“We really appreciate our teachers as we see test scores and student achievements; those teachers are the people that get all of that work done,” said Maria Norman, FWCS Board President. “Not only do our teachers educate, but a lot of them are also coaches and student sponsors for co-curricular groups, and so they really support a lot of the whole student and not just the education portion. So definitely the unsigned heroes of just everything.”…