The Little Egg Harbor Board of Education approved pay raises or extra hours for some of its workers at its Aug. 12 meeting.

“As we have discussed earlier, we are increasing the salaries for our nurse assistants effective Sept. 1,” Superintendent of Schools Melissa McCooley told the board. “We are also increasing the cafeteria/playground aide hours from three to 3½ hours a day, which will give us more assistance in both of those areas.