Baltimore-area teachers continue to have pay problems as school starts

Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun on Sep 5, 2026

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BALTIMORE — Pay problems are continuing for some Baltimore City Public Schools employees weeks into the new school year, while roughly 100 Baltimore County school employees were affected by a separate payroll issue this week.

City Schools could not confirm Friday whether the last seven of more than 200 pay cases identified before the school year had been resolved. In Baltimore County, district and union officials said an advance-pay problem was corrected quickly.

“This was an isolated issue,” said Baltimore County Public Schools spokesperson Gboyinde Onijala. “Checks have been cut for the impacted individuals, and those staff members will pick them up today or have elected to have them mailed.”

Kelly Olds, president of the Teachers Association of Baltimore County, said Friday the issues were “corrected right away.”

The problems come as both school systems navigate recent changes to their payroll operations. Baltimore City and Baltimore County have moved to systems provided by tech giant Oracle over the past two years.

Before school began on Aug. 24, Baltimore City Public Schools said it had reviewed more than 200 cases of Baltimore Teachers Union members who had outstanding pay issues, with only seven remaining.

As of Friday, the district was unable to confirm if those seven cases had been resolved, according to spokesperson Sherry Christian.

“City Schools had a successful first payday on Friday, August 28, our first payday of the new school year using the new payroll software systems,” Christian said in a statement. “While we are encouraged by this, our goal remains clear: every employee should be paid accurately and on time.”

Christian said the district would continue working to identify and address problems to ensure employees receive the pay they have earned.

Some problems have been corrected, but others remain unresolved, according to Cristina Duncan Evans, chair of the teachers’ chapter of the Baltimore Teachers Union.

Amid the transition for both employee- and administration-facing digital systems to manage timekeeping and payroll, Duncan Evans said the union has been troubled by the “persistence of errors” for members who’ve experienced them before.

After the first full pay period of the school year on Sept. 11, Duncan Evans said the union would have more information.

Baltimore County experienced its own pay disruptions after transitioning to Oracle last year.

District officials said at the time that less than 2% of the system’s roughly 21,000 employees experienced pay disruptions, though union leaders raised concerns about irregularities during the transition.

As of July, the district had allocated nearly $35 million for its transition to Oracle.