Improve Teacher Retention and Pay

(Inquirer) About 14,000 Philadelphia teachers, school nurses, counselors, paraprofessionals, and other school workers were supposed to get a 3% raise in September. The money never showed.

“While it was our hope to have your salary increases ready in time,” Oz Hill, the district’s deputy superintendent for operations, told employees in an email, “we are unable to meet this aggressive timeframe utilizing the new payroll system that was launched this year. Please accept our apology for this, and know that your payments will be made on October 24.”