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Byline: Marilyn Brown
Sep. 27--TAMPA -- Hundreds of Hillsborough teachers, each expecting hundreds of extra dollars in their paychecks Friday, didn't get it.
Teachers and their administrators who meet certain criteria were to receive 5 percent or 10 percent higher pay for working in the district's 23 highest poverty schools.
Friday's miscue is the latest in a string of glitches as the district shifts to its new $17 million Lawson computer system, which ran $7 million over budget and a year behind schedule.
"People were surprised. Some were very upset," said Suzette P. Vergara, a sixth-grade language arts and reading teacher at Tampa's James …