CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Every employee in Kingsville schools will be getting a pay increase for the 2022-2023 school year.
The base starting salary for teachers will also be going up.
Teachers will start at $50,000 a year and all Kingsville Independent School District employees are getting a 4% pay increase on top of that, according to Kingsville ISD Superintendent Cissy Reynolds-Perez.
"We've been very strategic, last year when I arrived one of the things we did was we consolidated two schools and so that saved a big chunk of money in utilities and staffing," Reynolds-Perez said. "We did not layoff anyone, we did not terminate anyone. That was through attrition.
Reynolds-Perez points out that the district also eliminated a number of instructional programs. They were said to be too expensive and didn't have student enrollment numbers that warranted them to continue to be offered.
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