Etowah County Board of Education v. Smith

INGRAM, Presiding Judge.

Christine Smith filed a complaint against the Etowah County Board of Education (board), contending that she was not being paid the correct salary according to the board’s policies and the provisions of a public education employees pay raise act (act), 1988 Ala. Acts, No. 88-691, adopted by the Alabama legislature on September 13, 1988. Following an ore tenus proceeding, the trial court found that Smith was paid a salary of $13,981.50 for the 1988-89 school year, rather than the salary of $16,-833.68 to which she was entitled. The board, therefore, was ordered to pay to…