Three Things to Know About Prop A

1. If approved, Prop A brings the total salary increases to 6% for teachers and librarians and 5% for all other staff members.
2. If approved, the tax rate would be $0.9190 per $100 taxable value. This is a decrease of 14.36 cents from last year’s tax rate.
3. After passage, homeowners with a home value of $500,000 (with 100K homestead exemption) could pay up to $750 less in property taxes every year to the school district.

• Prop A provides funds to give all staff members an additional 3% general pay increase on top of the 3% salary increase for all teachers and librarians and 2% for all other staff members that the board of trustees approved earlier this year.
• Round Rock competes with neighboring districts for teachers and staff. Currently, starting teacher salaries in Round Rock ISD are approximately $600 lower than the average of other local districts in the Central Texas area. Prop A provides funds for the District to increase teacher salaries to help recruit and retain high-quality teachers. The District is struggling to fill all open classroom positions.
• Student-to-teacher classroom ratios and class sizes are impacted by teacher availability. Student-to-teacher classroom ratios and class sizes can increase when there is a shortage of teachers or less funds in the instructional budget.
• Teachers face rising health insurance premiums. This means teachers would experience a decrease in their take-home pay of approximately $30 to possibly as much as $200 per paycheck. Combine this with increased commuting times and housing costs in the Central Texas area; not remaining competitive with compensation and responding to increased costs of living rates could trigger increased teacher turnover rates.

RECRUIT BUS DRIVERS & SUPPORT STAFF

• Round Rock ISD has more than 250 buses driven on 140 routes across the District to transport 20,900 students each day. Superintendents and transportation directors in districts large and small are facing a driver shortage that has been years in the making but pushed to crisis level by the Covid pandemic. School districts have struggled to recruit new drivers and entice drivers back.
• Prop A provides funds to provide competitive salaries to attract and retain qualified bus drivers and staff to serve Round Rock ISD campuses.

ARMED SECURITY AT ALL SCHOOLS

• Recently, a new statewide mandate requires armed security at every campus, but the state did not provide funds for the cost of about $80,000 per school or an annual cost of $2.5M.
• There is a shortage of police officers across the State. The increased funding for police pay could enable the District to hire more officers.

Proposition A