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Thursday, May 27, 2010 | 11:44 a.m.
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- Teachers accept ‘shared sacrifice’ (5-7-2010)
- School District, union reach agreement to save jobs (5-3-2010)
- Recruiting blitz on even as teachers await layoffs (4-27-2010)
- Clark County teachers sweating out the budget crisis (4-22-2010)
- ‘Almost catastrophic’ budget cuts on horizon for Clark County schools (4-22-2010)
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Clark County Education Association members ratified a new contract with the School District that freezes teacher pay for one year.
The agreement will help the district close the bulk of a remaining $28 million budget gap without resorting to furlough days or layoffs.
Teacher salaries and benefits account for about 67 percent of the district’s $2.1 billion operating budget.
The union represents the majority of the district’s 18,000 licensed personnel. In an earlier survey — with more than 4,600 responses — 81 percent of CCEA members said they supported the proposed contract.
By the close of voting Wednesday, 902 members had cast ballots with 686 —76 percent — in favor of the contract. That’s about 200 more ballots than were cast in the prior year’s contract ratification.
CCEA President Ruben Murillo said the organization was pleased to have the contract process completed.
Will the school district hold the required public hearings that are required for such a contract to be approved?
What required public hearings? cite your source. Im getting sick of you ignorant fools. You people are pushing the divide in this country and soon its going to end in war, is that what you want FRM?
Wow lectrocuda, you say that public hearings on union contracts where taxpayer money is spent will lead to war. Really? Who is the one throwing fuel on the fire here? How is anyone who demands transparency with public funds dividing a country? Please tell us your sources.
Before I saw the completely moronic comment above (not mine), I was coming on here to give teachers and educators props for what seems to be eluding all the other unions. They gave concessions to save others jobs. For that they deserve to be recognized.
While the K - 12 system is giving up their payraise for 1 year, the tenured staff at UNLV (and probably UNR) is still getting all of their benefits.
If the state workers are going to have to give up something, why don't ALL of them have to give up something?????
Freezing teachers pay for one year is not going to close the $28 million gap in the budget. If you want to know there is no money for education, 67 percent of the budget goes to pay and benefits. No agency can survive when 50 percent of the budget goes to pay and benefits. What are they going to do next year, tax revenue were down 9 percent for April.
Oh wow, really put those teachers in their place. Meanwhile, the public had no say in the BILLIONS of bonuses that Wall Street paid out using the PUBLIC's money while returning NO SERVICE. And let's not forget the BILLIONS we are throwing away in the Middle East wars so we can bring FREEDOM to them while we enslave our own citizens. Seriously, how STUPID is the American public?
If they are spending MY hard earned tax dollars I want to know how much, what for and for how long...Period
LasVegas2009,
Did you not get educated as a youth in a public school system paid for by taxpayers (as all are)? If you were the elite few who went to private schools all their life then I can understand the stupidity of your post.
LasVegas2009,
Did you go to public schools as a youth? I understand only a certain percent pay taxes, that wasn't my question. Since you state you feel the parents should pay for their "offspring" education I'm just curious if you yourself got educated in the public school system.
Keep telling yourselves the rampant ignorance in this country is the fault of the schools. How about this: If you don't go to college we sterilize your ignorant butt so you can't have any moronic, video game playing, beer guzzling, Nascar watching, Wall Street thieving, Mcdonald's eating, TV watching, book hating, drug abusing, OFFSPRING! GET BAD GRADES, SHOOT BLANKS FOR LIFE! Bet little Billy and Suzie start studying their butts off then!!!
"Freezing teachers pay for one year is not going to close the $28 million gap in the budget."
Freezing pay for one year DID close the $28 million gap. You see, the district needed to save that amount of money. They determined that a freeze will do exactly that. It's called math.
"Trillions of dollars are wasted each year by these school systems."
Trillions of dollars?!?! Trillions are not spent on education annually. I can see why you don't value education. You have none.