The Baldwin County Board of Education will consider recommendations Tuesday to drop a 1-cent sales tax request and impose personnel cuts which could mean laying off tenured employees.
Board representatives met this morning with county commissioners and state Sen. Trip Pittman to discuss financial shortfalls for Baldwin County schools. Board President Tracy Roberts said that rather than go forward with the request for a 1-cent sales tax for schools, the education system would consider a “reduction in force,” and other cuts. A reduction in force could allow more employees to be laid off, including tenured teachers and non-probationary classified workers, said Faron Hollinger, superintendent of education.
Baldwin school board looks at tenured layoffs
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Won’t laying off tenured teachers lead to expensive lawsuits from their union? Is the union only for teachers or does it include secretaries, central office staff and secretaries’ secretaries?
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how can they lay off tenured teachers when they can’t even get rid of teachers who have been convicted of crimes? remember the byrd lady in loxley that was doing meth? how long was she getting a full paycheck?
You’re brash to insinuate that AEA is not behind jailbirds continuing to get pay and benefits from the school system. AEA is a major reason the school system is in the mess that it is in. It is ridiculous that AEA prevents the school system from making the personnel decisions it needs to make – like moving a teacher from the second to the third grade at the same school.
Dera AEA Forever,
Poor little AEA Supporter, you are wasting your hard earned $$$ on a liberal, bully union that supports gay rights etc.. However, the sad part about the AEA is that they support the sorriest of employees, both teachers and administrators. Why do you just ask how many BC employees have been terminated but have continued to draw paychecks pending mediation. The legal fees spent could have been used in classrooms. Also, find out how many of your AEA colleagues have refused to do their jobs and ran to big bully AEA and had jobs created for them! The AEA is scum of the EARTH!! BIG BULLIES that protect BIG WORTHLESS NOTHINGS!!!!!!!!!!
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