BFT conducts a Survey of Employee Satisfaction each year as a service to BISD and its employees. The purpose of the survey is to identify what is working well in the district as well as the areas that need improvement. This goal is in line with BFT’s mission, which is to improve pay and working conditions for employees and achievement for students.
The first set of charts reflects the district-wide results of the survey. Following that are results by campus for campuses with 25 or more employees responding. For simplicity, “No response,” “N/A” and options not selected by any respondents were not included in the graphs.
Just as in previous years, teacher workload continues to be a problem districtwide. However, from the data and comments, this issue appears to be exacerbated by the loss of the PLC period at secondary schools and additional PLC requirements at the elementary campuses. Some of the comments suggest that a significant number of teachers are nearing burnout and there may be a larger turnover than usual at the end of this school year.
Additionally, morale is described as “poor” at several campuses, and dissatisfaction with salary and benefits seems to have intensified.
We recommend that the board instruct district administrators to immediately address these issues to improve working conditions in BISD.