With a week-and-a-half before school starts on Aug. 12, the superintendent’s team is focused on filling about 100 vacancies.
Dallas ISD cheerleaders welcome teachers ahead of an event to kick-start the 2024-2025 school year, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas.Dallas schools superintendent Stephanie Elizalde looked out into the Winspear Opera House theater and locked eyes with the roughly 650 new teachers in the audience on Wednesday.Advertisement
“You know why? Once you get to Dallas ISD, you know you’re home, and you never want to leave,” she told the crowd at DISD’s New Teacher Academy.Stephanie Elizalde, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent, shares her remarks during an event to kick-start the 2024-2025 school year, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas.Schools across Texas struggled with educator recruitment and retention in the years after the pandemic.
They’re mostly in areas with“We’ll work between now and then to try to fill those last few slots, but we’re ready to start the year,” Elizalde said.To recruit this year, Dallas officials boosted its starting salary to $62,000. DISD uses a pay-for-performance model in which teachers can earn big raises if they prove to be effective in the classroom. District officials have credited that model for retaining excellent educators.
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