Valley View School District stands as a proud public school district in Eastern Pennsylvania, located in Lackawanna County, serving over 2,500 students in four schools. The district is committed to developing a rigorous and relevant curriculum and a nurturing environment that empowers all students.
Learn more at www.valleyviewsd.org.
The Challenge
Valley View School District supports professional growth by allowing educators and staff to take approved coursework for salary advancement. However, tracking when employees became eligible for a new salary column can be difficult without a centralized system. The process relied on emails, spreadsheets, and scattered document storage, making it easy for steps to be missed and delaying updates. HR often had no automatic way to know when an employee had officially reached a new tier, and employees lacked a clear method to notify the district. The district needed a streamlined, transparent workflow that connected coursework, documentation, and communication from start to finish.
The Solution
Edulink’s Comply Support Team assisted the district with creating a structured process for employees to submit advancement requests as soon as they earn the required credits or degree. Because the Collective Bargaining Agreement includes strict deadlines, timely submission is essential. Comply ensures requests and documents are captured in one place.
Employees can now upload all required documentation directly into Comply, giving HR immediate access to secure, consistently stored records. Verification becomes faster and fully aligned with district policies. Once HR approves the advancement, Payroll is automatically notified, so salary updates can be applied without delay.
By managing salary advancement through Comply, the district ensures timely and accurate pay adjustments, reduces administrative back‑and‑forth, and maintains organized, accessible documentation. The process supports following specific deadlines and provides transparency for both staff and administrators.
By managing salary advancement through Comply, the district ensures timely and accurate pay adjustments, reduces administrative back‑and‑forth, and maintains organized, accessible documentation.
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Edulink’s Comply platform has been instrumental in helping streamline our district’s paper-based HR procedures into Comply. After successfully implementing processes to digitize our clearances and mandated trainings, the Comply support team helped us build several district-specific items, including a way to track course credit pre-approvals and requests for salary column advancements. Both of these requests were previously paper-based. Comply allows staff members who accumulate the appropriate number of credits to submit their request for advancement electronically, allowing administrators to review and process requests more quickly, reduce paperwork, and improve transparency. With employees on three separate campuses, transitioning to this online form has simplified the process for all parties, making it both efficient and easy to track.
Jennifer Mauro
Director of Compliance
Valley View School District