School workers get cash 'present'

Public school employees will be repaid for one of their scheduled furlough days in a lump sum at the end of December, county school officials have decided.

But they will still get to take their remaining furlough days off from work, meaning all will effectively net one paid day off from work by the end of the fiscal year.

The plan was announced to school employees late last week, about two weeks after the county Board of Education decided to give back one of the furlough days it previously said were vital to cope with a funding shortfall.

The board initially imposed three furlough days on teachers, two on secretaries and...