The Appleton Area School District Board of Education met 04/11/2022 and during the Personnel Services update they had a brief discussion about educator retention and the reason for resignations.
The Personnel Services Report included 5 personnel-related items—22 new educator hires (9 of which were rehires of temporary employees and one of which was a Wisconsin Improvement Program (WIP) intern), 9 requests for contract changes based on employee requests for the upcoming school year, 7 resignations, 1 leave of absence, and 1 administrative hire.
The Personnel Services Report also included three items asking for compensation increases for educators, administrators, administrative support staff, secretaries, maintenance, and paraprofessionals. Chief Human Resources Officer Julie King told the board, “this increase is recommended for the retention of all our staff and future recruitment in the highly competitive labor market [and] is affordable given the district budget.”
Board member Deb Truyman noticed that 4 our of the 7 resignations were special education educators. She wondered what was happening with that and said it seemed like quite a few special ed educators had resigned from AASD.
Julie responded that they continue to track and monitor the reasons why individuals are leavings. Regarding the resignations listed in the agenda, one was leaving education, one was taking an administrative role, some were moving to surrounding districts, and some were leaving due to personal reasons or relocation.
In regards to special education specifically, she said that special education was one of the positions that had the most competition with surrounding districts, but that, overall, the biggest reasons why employees left those positions were for personal reasons or because they did not return after a leave of absence. She reiterated the competitive nature of that position, “I would say special education is a highly competitive area right now. It just is.”
Deb said special education was a tough job and she hoped that AASD would somehow be able to retain those employees.
There were no further questions.
View full meeting details here: http://go.boarddocs.com/wi/aasd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=CCKRDR6C7580
View full meeting video here: https://youtu.be/0pmA2Buj_8Y
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