BATON ROUGE mdash; Support workers in East Baton Rouge public schools will receive an extra $1,000 ahead of the Christmas holidays.nbsp;The move follows an executive order from Gov. Jeff Landry mandating stipends for school employees around the state.nbsp;On Thursday, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sc hool Board voted to issue $1,000 checks to all eligible support workers in the district, with the checks scheduled to be paid on Dec. 23.nbsp;In June, Landry issued an executive order cutting $168 million from the state's main education fund, mandating that the funds be used to give $2,000 stipends to teachers and $1,000 to school support staff.nbsp;The full stipend amount being disbursed totals $755,160.nbsp;Permalink| Comments ...read more read less