Caddo Parish School Board employees will get a $1,000 back-to-school payment

Makenzie Boucher, Shreveport Times
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The Caddo Parish School Board approved Tuesday a one-time payment to all eligible employees of Caddo Parish Schools. This payment provides $1,000 to teaches and staff across the district.

“The teachers, principals, cafeteria workers, custodians and everyone else in this district works hard to make sure our sweet babies have what they need and I’m proud we were able to come together and thank them for all they do,” said School Board member Dottie Bell . “Every employee is important and I’m grateful we got this done for them.”

This one-time supplement will provide nearly 5,000 employees with a back-to-school check. The supplement is estimated to cost $6.2 million, and was accomplished through the higher than estimated sales tax revenue.

Caddo Parish School Board approves $1,000 back-to-school supplement for teachers and staff
Caddo Parish School Board approves $1,000 back-to-school supplement for teachers and staff

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“Our longstanding commitment to the community has been to provide academic opportunity from a fiscally responsible school system,” said Superintendent Dr. T. Lamar Goree. “We have worked diligently to be good stewards of the taxpayer dollar and in that, we have outperformed our budget while investing in academic recovery and acceleration.”

Last year the school board invested more than $18 million in incentive payments to teachers and staff to reward their efforts. “Our priority as a Board is to provide the best education for every child and to do so we must have the highest quality employees across our parish,” said Board President Tony Nations.

To qualify for the back-to-school supplement, an employee be actively employed by the district on Sept. 1 and must be eligible to participate in the district’s benefits program.

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Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.

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