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(AP) -- The DeKalb County school board has approved a $15,000 raise for Superintendent Crawford Lewis. 

The board voted Monday night to raise Lewis salary from $240,000 to $255,000 and to extend his contract by more than a year to Jan. 3, 2013. 

The Organization of DeKalb Educators, which represents 4,700 school employees, urged the board to hold off on taking any action. 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that kindergarten teacher Lisa Morgan, a vice president for the employees group, complained that teachers did not get a raise and some bus drivers got pay cuts. 

Under his old contract, Lewis should have been making $250,000. 

Last year he agreed to take a 2 percent pay cut and turned down his $10,000 cost of living increase.

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