School Employee Pay

Even after two days of protest that closed 20 schools, classified staff at Durham Public Schools are still looking for answers. The school board is set to vote on how to address the error that led to the abrupt end of raises this week.

In a tense meeting Thursday night, Durham Public Schools’ Board of Education approved a budget amendment that allows classified staff to continue receiving recent raises through the end of January. Earlier this month, the district informed staff their raises would end abruptly due to an accounting error.

Many Durham Public School students didn't make it to school today, due to an absence of transportation workers. Transportation staff are among a group of workers at the district who received emails over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend announcing that their recent raises would be taken away.

Now that the state House has released its plan for teacher pay, there are three plans before lawmakers as they continue budget negotiations. Here are the…