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Painful proposal in SUSD
- 01-25-2011
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By Roger Phillips/Stockton Record
Faced with a multimillion-dollar budget chasm created by California's ongoing fiscal quagmire, the Stockton Unified School District is seeking significant contractual concessions from its largest bargaining group, which represents an estimated 1,800 teachers. Jim Thomas, deputy superintendent of business services for the San Joaquin County Office of Education, said it is imperative that Stockton Unified gain those concessions. "I don't see any way how Stockton can stay solvent without the concessions they're asking for," Thomas said. Stockton Unified presented its proposed concessions to the Stockton Teachers Association earlier this month, and they include provisions that, if implemented, would cause severe pain both to students and to the educators charged with instructing them. Under the plan, already swollen class sizes would further expand, the school year would be shortened and teachers would have to take a 10.7 percent pay cut. (more…)
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