Albuquerque Public Schools is giving substitute teachers pay raises in an effort to recruit hundreds more of them.
APS posted a notice Tuesday that substitute teachers will get pay increases of 24-30 percent come January 1. The new salary schedule is as follows.
The district currently has about 1000 substitute teachers, and wants to hire 500 more. They also want a couple hundred more substitute educational assistants, who will get a 15 percent raise.
APS communications director Johanna King says the money for the raises comes from having so many vacant positions throughout the district. There are , half of which are in special education.
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