WYNNE — The Wynne School District will be awarding classified staff who pursue higher education.
During a special meeting last night, the Wynne School Board approved a change to the classified salary schedule to increase the pay for employees who obtain a degree.
“Classified, they all each have individual scales. We added to the cafeteria scale bachelor’s and associate’s degrees to be paid for. That was intended to be on all of them,” said Wynne Schools Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Moore. “We went back and had to put that on all of them so all of our classified employees except our bus drivers get paid a little extra for having a bachelor’s or associate’s degree.”
Board members also approved policy updates for licensed and classified staff, giving them 10 days to return their contracts signed for the 2025-2026 school year, or it will be considered an automatic resignation. The policy previously gave employees 30 days to return their contracts.
The board approved corrections to the licensed and classified salary schedule and handled other employment matters.
The board accepted the resignations of Andrew Vaccaro, teacher and coach/high school; Analyn White, teacher/high school; Jazmine McGough, teacher/high school; Celeste Vanaman, bus driver/district; Kelly Ross, teacher/primary school; Casohnny Lumpkin, parent facilitator/intermediate; Marjorie Crawford, ESOL coordinator; and Kayla Coleman, paraprofessional, all effective the end of the 2023-2024 school year; and Anita West/long-term sub, effective March 22.
The board also agreed to hire Kesha McDowell, parent facilitator; and teachers Hannah Sutton, James Woodard, and David E. Brown, for the 2024-25 school year; and Callie Moore as a long-term sub, effective April 29.
Dr. Moore noted the district will be making a change to accommodate a rising number of students with dyslexia.
“We’re seeing an increased number of our students who qualify for dyslexia services,” he said. “We’ve got 33 kids moving to the high school for that, and we didn’t have a trained dyslexia person there. We have a special ed teacher who is planning to retire. Instead of replacing that with a special ed teacher, we’re going to make that a dyslexia-certified teacher who can work with those students.”
The board also approved modifications to provide support services for a student and approved a bid from Southern Lawn & Landscape for lawn services. The district’s current three-year contract with Southern was ending, and they were the sole bidder. The prices are unchanged for the new contract.
