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Henrico Schools' theater teachers raise concerns about after-school pay

Students, parents also speak out on pay difference between theater teachers and athletic coaches After 19 years of serving as the Drama head for J.R. Tucker High School, putting on dozens of plays, musicals, and one act shows, theater teacher Lisa Dyer will be stepping down from her after school position. It was a very difficult decision to make, Dyer said, but she could not continue to justify working hundreds of hours after school each year to be paid less than what head coaches at her high school make in just one athletic season. “I am in agony over this...

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