BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge School Board is considering giving teachers stipends after not including pay raises in this year's budget.

"We were not able to do it in the budget cycle in terms of giving them the significant raise I believe they deserve," Superintendent Lamont Cole said.

The stipend matches payouts approved during the legislative session. If approved, teachers would receive $2,000 from both the district and the state. These stipends are currently scheduled to be distributed at the end of the year.

Some have raised concerns about the late payments, asking the district to send the stipends earlier than November and December. This led the board to select a survey to better understand what staff members want.

"The results of the survey are going to dictate when we rele

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