Baton Rouge school employees may receive thousands of dollars in stipends earlier than planned, but exactly when and how depends on the results of an ongoing employee survey.
East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent LaMont Cole proposed originally to pay state-funded stipend checks on Nov. 26 followed by identical district-funded stipend checks on Dec. 23. Combined, teachers are in line to receive $4,000, while support workers would receive $2,000.
School Board members, responding to complaints from some employees, asked Cole at a meeting last week if he could pay the money earlier. Cole said he could but wanted to first ask the employees themselves and report to the board the results…