Maryland teachers contracted through a nonprofit program providing arts education in schools are suing, claiming they weren't paid for several months of work, according to the law firm Hoffman Employment Law, LLC.

The law firm states that eight teachers from various schools in the Baltimore City Public School District have filed a lawsuit against the city school district and the program Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center (LTYC ).

LTYC, based in a Mount Vernon office in Baltimore, gets contracts with school systems and other groups, then contracts with the educators.

The lawsuit claims that teachers have not been paid wages owed to them from April, May, and June.

"To say that these teachers have been harmed by LTYC's failure to pay wages would be an understatement," the law firm said i

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