Decatur school employees face three furlough days
- 3/25/10
- Categorized in: DeKalb News, Education
Teachers and administrators throughout Decatur public schools will be required to take three furlough days next year as the school system works to plug a budget deficit.
Employees who work more than 190 days per year, including teachers, will take the three days, which will save the school system about $345,000 in next year’s proposed $36.8 million budget, said Maria Lewis, spokeswoman for City Schools of Decatur.
This year’s budget is about $37.3 million, and the furlough days will help plug a deficit brought on mostly by state funding reductions. School districts across the state and nation are struggling to manage growing deficits as sales and property tax collections decrease in a recessionary economy.
The board passed the measure 3-0 March 18 with board chair Valerie Wilson and board member John Ahmann absent, Lewis said.
The furlough days will represent a 4 percent cut for 10 percent of the school system’s workforce – not teachers – Lewis said and 1.6 percent for 90 percent of the system. Some employees, such as paraprofessionals and school nurses, will not be affected.
Salaries also will be frozen next year.
No tax increases have been proposed, Lewis said.
Yes I agree. The problems stem from those greedy-greedy teachers. They all get bachelors, masters, and a couple specialists degrees to make $42k and milk the system from taxpayers like yourself. Imagine a world w/o these capitalist pigs? Maybe one day the world will wake-up and give these teachers whats coming to them. We can only hope.
a. A bunch of ex-hippie parents who want their neighborhood schools they can walk to in order to save the environment. It makes no economic or fiscal sense whatsoever to have that many schools in a four square mile area.
b. Too many resources diverted to "diversity" and political correctness.
c. Programs in the schools that make no sense, but are created to justify certain teachers' positions, such as the Senior Project, which, thankfully, is going away. However, there are other such programs.
d. Overpaid teachers and administrators.
e. Spending too many resources on loser students. If they spent that much on good students, think about how the system could excel.