The Douglas County School District plans to go ahead with its updated pay-for-performance plan, even if it means doing it with a lot less money after its bond measure to support the proposal failed at the polls.
Superintendent Elizabeth Celania-Fagen credited the loss to overall anti-tax sentiment around the state this election. The $200 million bond measure would have supported the plan that would give teachers up to a $20,000 bonus for meeting three criteria. Polls conducted by the district in the spring indicated a majority of residents supported the plan.
“We thought we had a very strong business plan moving forward, one that our voters have said they valued,” Celania-Fagen said. “But I think what we heard is that they just can’t support a tax increase at this time. They felt it was an uncertain and unstable time.”
Going forward, the district hopes to implement a small pilot program next fall that would include new teachers and current teachers who wish to opt in.
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