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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1
Bucco, if Waynet will allow me, here is a link to the six conditions presented to the union AFTER they refused a list of four other offers included in the state's "Transformational Model Intervention" at Central Falls High School by school superintendent Frances Gallo. The union refused these final conditions because the teachers would not receive additional pay.
http://www.projo.com/ri/centralfalls...1094bb3d0.html
Here is a little of the background that led to firing 74 teachers:
http://www.projo.com/ri/centralfalls...2.398afed.html
From PROJO: Money was a sticking point. The superintendent (Central Falls School Supt. Frances Gallo) said she could not pay teachers for all the extra work she expected of them.
Gallo said she offered to pay teachers $30 an hour for two additional weeks of training in the summer. Gallo also said she would try to find grant money to pay teachers for 90 minutes a week of after-school planning time, also at $30 an hour.
But she says she has no extra money to pay for other changes she is pushing for, including lengthening the instructional day by 25 minutes, so teachers work 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. instead of 7:50 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. She wants teachers to formalize a rotating tutoring schedule, so a teacher is available to help students for an hour before or after school, and she wants teachers to have lunch with students one day a week.
“Right now, they have no duties,” Gallo said. “But I don’t want them to see lunch as a duty. I want them to establish true relationships with not a few students, but all students.”
The average teacher’s salary at the high school ranges between $72,000 and $78,000 a year, because most are at the district’s top step, Gallo said. Union officials have been pushing for $90 per hour and want the district to pay for more of the additional responsibilities."
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Thanks BK...I am married to a gal who taught for about 35 years and thus had interest in this, and just wanted to keep it into perspective ! Not questioning the veracity of Wayne, but links are important ESPECIALLY with localized stories !
Thanks again.....gotta tell you...my wife has been retired for about 15 years and never even got close to those salaries (wonder where Wayne got his)....but most of those duties were commonplace for her with no extra pay !