Posted by Bill Leonard at 12:00 am on Mar 16, 2009 Comments Off on Seeing Pink
Last Friday March 13th was the deadline day for school districts
to issue potential layoff notices to teachers for the next school
year.
This early notice date was put into law by the teachers’ union
and is now used by the teachers’ union as an excuse to complain
about school budgets. In an abundance of caution, districts
will issue notices to a number of teachers. The number is not
important, but what is important is that these are not pink slips,
not actual layoff notices, nor any notice that requires any
action. It’s not even close to the private sector where the
employer can layoff people with little or no actual notice.
Another teacher union law requires school districts to finalize
any actual layoffs by May 15th whether or not they have any idea of
what the state budget looks like or what next year’s enrollment
might be.
Historically no district with a stable or growing enrollment has
laid off any classroom teacher no matter how badly the state budget
treated government schools. I would be surprised to hear of
any district actually laying off classroom teachers this year
either.
But right or wrong I will give… Read More