Salaries for public schoolteachers in East Baton Rouge Parish are increasing by an average of $8,500 a year thanks to big raises approved Thursday for the vast majority of employees of the state’s second-largest traditional school district.
The pay increases are part of a sweeping overhaul of how East Baton Rouge pays its roughly 6,000 employees. For many, it will be their biggest pay raise in decades.
The new, generous salary schedule fulfills longstanding promises made by current School Board members and Superintendent LaMont Cole to greatly increase employee compensation…