This district is located about 25 miles from the Minnesota border. The Republican Dictatorship that rules Wisconsin continues to defund public schools while Minnesota just sent a 2 BILLION dollar funding increase to keep it's public schools #1 in America. Wisconsin is declining while Minnesota is the economic engine of the Midwest.
We strongly urge prospective teaching candidates to leave school districts like this for the much higher pay and benefits offered in Minnesota districts.
Politically, this is Trump Country with about 56% of the voters supporting Trump and Standing With Walker before Trump.
The average teacher salary for the Colfax school district is $61,213.
Since July 2011, the average teacher salary in this school district has only increased by 13.4% which is far less than the rate of inflation.
Though the Colfax school board has not prioritized teacher pay, it certainly has acted to keep the Superintendent happy by providing a 38.4% pay raise.
Our experience has been that districts that screw teachers over with minimal pay raises but then lavish HUGE pay increases on the Superintendent are absolutely HORRIBLE places to live and work.