One quote from that report referenced above sumarrizes the entire budget fiasco we as a state have experienced under Sen. Phil Berger’s gerrymandered hold on state politics.

WUNC News contacted the offices of Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Destin Hall to seek an explanation on why lawmakers delayed the bonuses. “Legislators wanted to ensure agencies had sufficient time to process their payrolls following the raises before the bonuses were delivered,” Berger spokeswoman Lauren Horsch said Tuesday.

Sufficient time?

Before those raises and bonuses are set to be given to teachers, a new school year will have already started. That means we will have three staright school years where the pay scale will be the same.

That is until the new raises are put into effect. But with higher costs for insurance and the effects of inflation, those raises have already been eaten up.

Add to that, this next month was when longevity pay was usually paid out to teachers.