The Oregon School District Board of Education finalized and approved the salaries of the district’s staff for the 2026-27 school year at their meeting on Monday, Oct. 12.
The board reached a tentative agreement with the Oregon Education Association regarding the Collective Bargaining Agreement. By law, the board can not offer more than CPI for base wages, which is 2.63% which the board offered. With this offer there was a tentative agreement on the base wages, the board then voted to approve of this agreement.
The next decision regarding salaries was the approval of the educator compensation schedule. There is a lot of energy put into what goes into the schedule including looking into what other districts are doing in terms of starting salaries and where the top of the schedule is. The goal of this schedule is to remain competitive in the area by retaining teachers and recruiting teachers in the area…