How is the cost-of-living adjustment for staff funded and will that change?
State law requires school districts to implement state-mandated Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) to all school employees, but it doesn’t require the state to actually provide full funding. Therefore, every time the state stipulates a cost-of-living adjustment, the district must make up the difference between what the state funds and what we actually pay our staff. That difference is made up through local levy dollars and reserves.
