Several central-office employees received hefty, unauthorized raises in Maryland’s second-biggest school system even as a teacher pay increase was recently rejected, members of the Prince George’s County school board alleged Wednesday. Three board members who form a minority bloc are seeking “immediate intervention” by Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D) to address raises they call improper. In a letter to Baker, the board members say the employees received pay hikes of 10 to 12 percent. [Maryland officials to Prince George’s: Show us you’re fixing diploma scandal]And it represents another flash point as Baker faces multiple opponents in his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. She blamed that structure for an array of controversies the Prince George’s school system has faced.

Source: Washington Post March 08, 2018 00:36 UTC