The school district will also hire personnel for student healthcare services as needed, The Bee reported. Another 150 to 200 are going through background checks, the district informed The Bee. The district now has over 2,100 substitute teachers who are credentialed, qualified, fingerprinted, background-checked and “ready to go” if a strike happens, Nelson said last week. The daily substitute pay will balance out costs to the district because the district won’t be paying teachers while they are on strike many Fresno Unified teachers average daily pay is $490. The substitute hiring and orientation services are not for substitute teachers’ daily wages but the costs for their recruitment and processing into the district, district spokesperson Nikki Henry told The Bee. “Know that we intend to keep our schools open, safe and fully available for learning with relevant and on-grade level curriculum prepared and ready to go for all classrooms,” Superintendent Bob Nelson told the media during an Oct. More specifically, according to The Bee, the millions are split into four different categories: $2 million for curriculum, $410,000 for substitute hiring and orientation services, $451,000 for health services and $176,000 for security, totaling $3,037,000. The $3 million allocation will fund health services, school supplies and security. The school district has already pledged to pay substitute teachers $500 a day if a strike happens.
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