The Pleasant Valley School Board has voted to approve raising the substitute teacher rate from $80 a day to $100 a day.

Then board voted 7-1 last week, with Susan Kresg casting the dissenting vote. Board member Robert Serfass was absent.Kresge said that she approves of a raise, but not $100."Once you go to that rate, you can't reduce it," she said.Board member Len Peeters said that he was for the raise. He thinks the $100 will pull in the substitutes.The debate whether or not to increase the substitute teacher raise has been ongoing since the board heard that several PV specialist teachers were being pulled in to act as substitute teachers because of the lack of substitutes.Earlier this year Superintendent Carole Geary introduced a survey of substitute teacher rates throughout the Colonial Intermediate Unit 20 districts, which varied from $70 in Pen Argyl to $100 at Pocono Mountain.The board also approved, 8-0, to recall two furloughed teachers, Yvette Shelter for Pleasant Valley Intermediate sixth grade Social Studies and Tim Hinton for PVI sixth grade Special Education, first semester.The board approved, 8-0:• A contract with Mobile Ag. Ed. Science Lab for $2,000 to provide workshops at PVE from Dec. 2-5, 2014• A contract with Renaissance Learning for $13,530.24 for staff development and school licenses for accelerating learning• A contract with Amplify for $24,797 for student software• Sabbatical leaves for Lila Metz for first semester of 2014-2015 school year and Karen Fuls for first and second semesters of 2014-2015 school year.• Resignations effective of conclusion of 2013-2014 school year, part-time paraprofessionals Heather Kelly, Jennifer Leiner, Heather Mostosky (wishes to remain on substitute teacher/paraprofessional associate list); D. Lourdes Russaw, effective June 12, 2014.• Retirements effective of June 30, 2014, Gina DeVito-Curry (food service employee); Mary Jane Piersa (full-time paraprofessional associate); Rosemary Stenlake, full-time paraprofessional associate/library (wishes to remain on the substitute list for paraprofessional associate/library.)