WCCUSD’s Manufactured Fiscal Crisis
And their real recruitment and retention crisis
In the past 3 years: 561 educators have left
In the last 5 years:
16.5% increase in educators’ pay
32.8 % WCCUSD’s increase in
overall revenue!
CDE Average California Teacher
23-24: $101,084
WCCUSD Average 23-24: $91,374
Contra Costa County Above Average
Costs
Out of Reach Report 2024
National Low Income Housing Coalition
11th most expensive county in CA
29.9% more expensive than average of all counties
Founded in 1974 by Cushing N. Dolbeare, the National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated to achieving racially and socially equitable public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes have quality homes that are accessible and affordable in communities of their choice.
NLIHC provides up-to-date information, formulates policy, and educates the public on housing needs and the strategies for solutions. Permission to reprint portions of this report or the data therein is granted, provided appropriate credit is given to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Additional copies of Out of Reach are available from NLIHC.
Self-Sufficiency Standard 2024
University of Washington’s Center for Women’s Welfare
9th most expensive county in CA
43.2% more expensive than average of all counties
A project of the Center for Women’s Welfare (CWW), the Self-Sufficiency Standard is a budget-based, living wage measure that defines the real cost of living for working families at a minimally adequate level. The Standard is an affordability measure and an alternative to the official poverty measure.
The Self-Sufficiency Standard determines the amount of income required for working families to meet basic needs at a minimally adequate level, taking into account family composition, ages of children, and geographic differences in costs.
It isn't enough for us to be
average. Teacher Salaries need
to be commensurate with the
cost of living in Contra Costa
County and
non-teacher college graduates to
recruit and retain educators in
this district and this profession
WCCUSD Revenues: Chronic Error or
Educational Misfeasance?
Ending Fund Balance
After we were told there was no money for raises or
improvements to our meager healthcare benefits, WCCUSD ended 23-24 with 10% more revenue (an extra $50 million) than it had projected:
Unrestricted $61.8M ($37.6 in Fund 17) -11.56% of total outgo Restricted $101M-19% of total outgo
No, Chicken Little, the Sky is not Falling.
Even Fund 17 Never Goes Down!
Currently: 1478 FTE, 129 vacancies
Estimate $145,000 per member x 129 = 18,705,000
Total District FTE: 3,596
Filled FTE: 3,098
Vacant FTE: 498
We’re not the only bargaining unit they are saving on
WCCUSD
Fiscal
Solvency
Plan
Ratified
2/5/25
WCCUSD did not invest the required 55% of its current cost of education in classroom compensation. It only spent 51.34%, which is $11,391,200 less. This includes teachers and
instructional aides salary and benefits.
In September 2024 WCCUSD claimed to have met the
requirement despite not meeting it in the unaudited actuals.
Our District has not met this minimum for the past 4 school years, but our anti-student County Superintendent Lynn Mackey has given WCCUSD a waiver, year after year.
35.2% of total outgo = State average for districts our size (20k-30k ADA) spent on Certificated Bargaining unit salaries for 23-24, even after implementing our 7.5% raise,
WCCUSD spent a paltry 29.8%
We know we can do better because in 19-20 WCCUSD
spent 35.6% on Bargaining unit salaries
for 23-24 WCCUSD spent 13% of outgo on
Professional/Consulting services, compared to 9% in 19-20