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Dear Senator Fields:

I am in receipt of your request for an Attorney General's opinion concerning the following:

May a public school board redirect local supplemental salaries previously paid to individual teachers?

You state the following facts in your request:

The Tangipahoa Parish School Board employees Vocational Agriculture teachers to work on a twelve month basis. Until the 1997-98 school year, these teachers received the state minimum salary plus a local parish settlement. Until the 1997-98 school year, their salary over the three summer months was based upon 12/9 of the regular teacher…