In discharging these responsibilities, the director of Human Resources involves department and campus personnel in conducting recruiting visits, soliciting applicants, and conducting candidate interviews. Totals may not add to 100 due to rounding. Central administrative and professional support staff grew the fastest, while the largest increase in staff was in auxiliary employees. The smallest percent increase was in the number of teachers and educational aides dropped by more than 20 percent. Campus administration includes principal and assistant principal.
Professional support includes therapist, counselor, librarian and nurse.
Auxiliary staff includes maintenance personnel, custodians and cafeteria workers. In 1998-99, the average level of experience of EISD teachers surpassed the state and regional averages for the first time. The salaries for EISD professional personnel are described in Exhibit 3-7 . By comparison to peer districts, EISD teachers have the highest average salary, professional support personnel have the third lowest average salary, campus administrators have the third highest average salary and central administrators have the lowest average salary. Any employee required to have a commercial driver's license is subject to drug and alcohol testing.