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Teachers, parents press Chatham County Schools to restore master’s pay and add EC, bilingual incentives
Summary
At a Chatham County Schools board meeting, teachers, special-education staff and parents urged restoration of a master’s-degree salary supplement and recommended incentive pay for exceptional-children (EC) staff and bilingual classified employees to improve retention and recruitment.
At a Chatham County Schools board meeting (date not specified), teachers, support staff and parents used the public comment period to urge the school board to restore the district supplement for teachers with master’s degrees and to add targeted incentive pay for EC staff and bilingual classified employees.
The comments centered on retention and recruitment. John Clark, a third-grade teacher at Chatham Grove Elementary and a member of the Chatham County Association of Educators, said the loss of a master’s supplement had produced a personal financial shortfall: "$28,690 of just base pay," he said, describing that amount as "a staggering amount for me specifically." Clark said the district’s reinstatement of other supplements…
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