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Typical LIB Teachers

Citizen

Council Member
If this is correct...
By the accounts posted herein that..Liberals (only) are:

-working for free, due to budget cuts
-and, it cannot be repubs -cause repubs are working in 'rich' districts
-and only dems want to help kids, etc etc...


then it can logically be concluded that it is by their (liberals, by your accounts) hand that the district, and consequently the children, are in this situation to begin with...

http://delcotimes.com/articles/2012/01/27/news/doc4f235ad57b6f6388471842.txt?viewmode=default
Wrong
 

Citizen

Council Member
You will NEVER see a Con making a sacrifice like this in order to help Americans. No way, no how.



Chester Upland teachers say they will keep working after district funds run out Jan. 11
January 05, 2012|By Dan Hardy, Inquirer Staff Writer


The Chester Upland School District, running out of money, will not be able to pay its staff after Wednesday, but teachers and support staff there say they will keep working without pay.

At a union meeting at Chester High School on Tuesday night, the employees passed a resolution saying they would stay on "as long as we are individually able."

Columbus Elementary School math and literacy teacher Sara Ferguson, who has taught in Chester Upland for 21 years, said after the meeting, "It's alarming. It's disturbing. But we are adults; we will make a way. The students don't have any contingency plan. They need to be educated, so we intend to be on the job."




http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-05/news/30593433_1_support-staff-charter-schools-assistant-superintendent
 

Proud Progressive

Council Member
Right Wing Free Market Fundamentalists would all agree that this is an impossibility. This must be another Left Wing fantasy.

With-out the inducement of monetary gain there is no incentive.

Damned Liberals..................

Sarcasm Alert.
 

Citizen

Council Member
Heheheheheheheheheheheeeee yeah, just who do they think they are. Putting the welfare of Americas children ahead of thier desire for monetary gain...

Damn Lib's !!!!!!!!
 

Citizen

Council Member
Translation; they all have spouses with much higher incomes. Mystery solved. Enjoy.
Yeah cause in Con world, noway would anybody actually be concerned for thier fellow man....


God I'm glad I don't have such a negative picture of mankind as you appear to.

Is there anything that makes you smile & enjoy living?
 

Jen

Senator
I'm sorry. I don't see where she reported that she is a liberal. Will you please point that out to me? I know you wouldn't lie about her being a liberal........... so where exactly does it say that?
 

888888

Council Member
Yeah cause in Con world, noway would anybody actually be concerned for thier fellow man....


God I'm glad I don't have such a negative picture of mankind as you appear to.

Is there anything that makes you smile & enjoy living?
maybe if a bus load of union workers goes off a cliff, or a nut case goes off and takes out a bunch of teachers at a picnic, or a boat load of black people sinks. Things like that might do it!
 

888888

Council Member
I'm sorry. I don't see where she reported that she is a liberal. Will you please point that out to me? I know you wouldn't lie about her being a liberal........... so where exactly does it say that?
Just for you Jen since your fingers can't do the walking.
Teachers Decide To Work For Free After Budget Cuts Leave Pennsylvania School District Without Funds For Salaries

By Tanya Somanader on Jan 6, 2012 at 3:55 pm




A teacher at Chester Upland Schools
The Chester Upland School District in Delaware County, Pennsylvania suffered a serious setback when Gov. Tom Corbett (R) slashed $900 million in education funds from the state budget. The cuts landed hardest on poorer districts, and Chester Upland, which predominantly serves African-American children and relies on state aid for nearly 70 percent of its funding, expects to fall short this school year by $19 million.

Faced with such a shortage of funds, the school district informed its staff that it will not be able to pay their salaries come Wednesday. So the teachers decided to work for free. As one teacher put it, students “need to be educated, so we intend to be on the job”:


At a union meeting at Chester High School on Tuesday night, the employees passed a resolution saying they would stay on “as long as we are individually able.”
Columbus Elementary School math and literacy teacher Sara Ferguson, who has taught in Chester Upland for 21 years, said after the meeting, “It’s alarming. It’s disturbing. But we are adults; we will make a way. The students don’t have any contingency plan. They need to be educated, so we intend to be on the job.”

The school board and the unions separately begged Corbett to provide financial aid for the district, but Corbett turned each request down. Pennsylvania’s Education Secretary Ron Tomalis told the board that it “had failed to properly manage its finances and would not get any additional funds.” Chester Upland was forced to lay off “40 percent of its professional staff and about half of its unionized support staff before school began last fall.” That leaves 200 professionals and 65 support staff to manage a school with class sizes of over 40 students.

Chester Upland is not the only district desperately trying to stay afloat. Corbett’s cuts forced one school district to enforce wage freezes and cut extracurricular activities and another turned to actually using sheep instead of lawnmowers to cut grass at two of its schools. As ThinkProgress’s Travis Waldron pointed out, Corbett could relieve school districts if he let special interest groups like tobacco and the oil and gas industry go without their tax breaks. But he seems to prefer allowing teachers to go without pay.
 

Jen

Senator
Thank you for helping Citizen.

Just for you Jen since your fingers can't do the walking.
Teachers Decide To Work For Free After Budget Cuts Leave Pennsylvania School District Without Funds For Salaries

By Tanya Somanader on Jan 6, 2012 at 3:55 pm




A teacher at Chester Upland Schools
The Chester Upland School District in Delaware County, Pennsylvania suffered a serious setback when Gov. Tom Corbett (R) slashed $900 million in education funds from the state budget. The cuts landed hardest on poorer districts, and Chester Upland, which predominantly serves African-American children and relies on state aid for nearly 70 percent of its funding, expects to fall short this school year by $19 million.

Faced with such a shortage of funds, the school district informed its staff that it will not be able to pay their salaries come Wednesday. So the teachers decided to work for free. As one teacher put it, students “need to be educated, so we intend to be on the job”:


At a union meeting at Chester High School on Tuesday night, the employees passed a resolution saying they would stay on “as long as we are individually able.”
Columbus Elementary School math and literacy teacher Sara Ferguson, who has taught in Chester Upland for 21 years, said after the meeting, “It’s alarming. It’s disturbing. But we are adults; we will make a way. The students don’t have any contingency plan. They need to be educated, so we intend to be on the job.”

The school board and the unions separately begged Corbett to provide financial aid for the district, but Corbett turned each request down. Pennsylvania’s Education Secretary Ron Tomalis told the board that it “had failed to properly manage its finances and would not get any additional funds.” Chester Upland was forced to lay off “40 percent of its professional staff and about half of its unionized support staff before school began last fall.” That leaves 200 professionals and 65 support staff to manage a school with class sizes of over 40 students.

Chester Upland is not the only district desperately trying to stay afloat. Corbett’s cuts forced one school district to enforce wage freezes and cut extracurricular activities and another turned to actually using sheep instead of lawnmowers to cut grass at two of its schools. As ThinkProgress’s Travis Waldron pointed out, Corbett could relieve school districts if he let special interest groups like tobacco and the oil and gas industry go without their tax breaks. But he seems to prefer allowing teachers to go without pay.
 

JackDallas

Senator
Supporting Member
Better that they quit. Nothing can improve a school system quicker than getting rid of Liberal teachers.
 

888888

Council Member
It has to be a liberal teacher, a republican teacher would be at a private school for rich kids.
 

gigi

Mayor
I read the article twice. I still don't see how it's been suggested, much less confirmed, that these teachers are liberals. Seems all we know right now is that they're wonderful devoted people. But as for how they've been identified as liberals, I'm still lost.
 

gabriel

Governor
as one of the great generalizers of this place, i would have thought you would have appreciated his post a little more thn that.
 

Friday13

Governor
And this guy gave even more...

FRESNO, Calif. -- The school superintendent in California who is forgoing hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay and benefits to help offset budget cuts to his school district has decided to give away even more.

Fresno County Superintendent Larry Powell recently volunteered to return more than $288,000 in annual salary and benefits for the next three-and-a-half years of his term. He technically retired, allowing him to collect a six-figure annual pension, then was rehired with a $31,000 salary.

On Monday, Powell told The Associated Press that he's also planning to donate that $31,000 salary to charity.


CA school superintendent gives salary to schools
 
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