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Committee recommends roughly 20% boost to substitute pay, to be funded by consolidation savings
Summary
An Ouachita Parish School Board committee voted to recommend a roughly 20% across‑the‑board increase in substitute teacher pay, estimated to cost about $500,000 and to be funded by staffing savings from a Southside Elementary consolidation; the recommendation goes to the full board for approval.
At a committee meeting, members voted to recommend a roughly 20% across‑the‑board increase in substitute teacher pay and asked the full Ouachita Parish School Board to consider the measure.
District staff presented a three‑year history of substitute expenditures and estimated that a 20% raise would cost about $500,000. "A 20% increase in that would be around $500,000," Ms. Mekas told the committee. Committee members said the raise would be funded by savings from the recently approved consolidation of Southside…
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