About 3,000 Atlanta school district employees would get pay raises under an $11 million plan the school board is set to vote on Monday.
The plan is not an across-the-board pay hike. Instead, it aims to bring staff affected by years of pay freezes up to par with new employees hired during those years.
District officials say the raises are necessary to keep good employees and help attract new ones.
“We have to show all of our employees that we value them,” board member Jason Esteves said at a budget commission meeting Thursday.
Atlanta Public Schools employees received raises last year. Before that, the last year they saw pay increases was 2009, APS human resources chief Pamela Hall said.
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