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Lynchburg teachers union urges board to put pay at center of budget
Summary
Carl Luce, president of the Lynchburg Education Association, told the school board the upcoming budget should prioritize staff compensation, citing years-long pay freezes and pay gaps with neighboring districts. Finance staff said the division will seek revenue for compensation decisions but concrete amounts await board direction.
Carl Luce, president of the Lynchburg Education Association, urged the Lynchburg City Schools Board on Dec. 16 to make staff compensation a top priority as the district prepares its budget. "If you want to prove you care about your staff, then the budget needs to reflect that," Luce said, describing an 11-year pay freeze that left the district behind neighboring counties and recounting a teacher who took a $10,000 pay cut returning to LCS.
Luce told the board that starting teacher pay in Lynchburg is now comparable to…
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