Higley USD is proposing using education sales tax money to increase some employees’ base pay as much as 11% while the governing board approved a substantial bump in substitute pay at its Sept. 21 meeting.
The raises would come by applying some Classroom Site Fund money to other funds to increase base pay, a maneuver that HUSD officials has been used in other districts but is new for Higley.
Classroom Site Fund money comes from a $0.06 education sales tax approved by Arizona voters in 2000 as Proposition 301. In the past, HUSD used the money to fund performance-based pay.
