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Monroe County Community Schools Superintendent Judi DeMuth is taking issue with discrepancies in MCCSC teacher compensation data distributed recently by Indiana State Representative Peggy Mayfield.
In last night’s MCCSC school board meeting, DeMuth provided an excerpt from a handout she said Mayfield distributed at a recent education presentation. DeMuth said the handout underrepresented what MCCSC spends on teacher salaries. Interim Assistant Director of Business Operations Adam Terwilliger, also addressed the data in Mayfield’s handout, saying he tried to recreate Rep. (R-Martinsville) Mayfield’s data using the source she cited – Legislative Services Agency’s school funding data, but could not find the source data.
Terwilliger said he also looked to the Indiana Employment Education Relations Board for the most recent data on teacher salaries. From 2015 to 2018, he said, MCCSC paid over $5,000 above the state average, per teacher.
Superintendent DeMuth said she has met with Representative Mayfield about the discrepancies. DeMuth also spoke to what she referred to as a ‘bait and switch’ by the Indiana General Assembly in its rhetoric on education funding.
A recent report from the LSA predicts a $60 million funding shortfall for the 2019-2020 school year.
