May cost millions to fix flawed salary schedule

School officials say it may cost the DeKalb County school dis- trict millions to fix a botched salary schedule rolled out last week that left some teachers with only a 2-cent raise when the schedule took effect.

The change in pay for approximately 16,000 school district employees was supposed to reflect 2.5 percent raises as well as a revised pay schedule. Instead, some who expected large raises got none, wh i le o thers who expected a small raise received thousands more.

Officials have said the raises were intended to make the district’s salaries more competitive with other area school districts. Now, the confusion and uncertain solution may hurt efforts to hire and retain teachers for the 2019-2020 school year.

Schools Superintendent Steve Green said the district is working to fix what went wrong.