Pink Slipped Teachers Re-hired
The teacher’s union and the Democrats owe public school teachers an apology.
The teacher’s union (Arizona Education Association) actively opposed a bill (HB2630) that sought to give school districts more time before notifying teachers about renewal of their contracts for the upcoming school year. The plan was to change the teacher notification period from April 15th to June 15th to allow districts to gain a better understanding of their budgets for the coming school year.
However, the AEA and Democrats severely exaggerated the size of the GOP education cuts, saying Republicans sought to pass the bill to hide huge budget reductions to education. The GOP has been vindicated as the teachers who received reduction-in-force notices in April are now being rehired by their respective school districts.
A recent article in The Arizona Republic, “Valley district recall teachers laid off in April” details the school districts rehiring teachers.
Examples of teachers being rehired include:
John Wright from the Arizona Education Association in particular needs to apologize to teachers for instilling fear and spreading inaccurate information. Wright claimed cuts to education would be over $990 million to K-12 alone.
The recent Majority budget passed by the Legislature consisted of $220 million in cuts to education, or approximately 2 percent of their overall budget. And as the Majority assumed, the federal government has approved $832 million of stimulus funds to be applied towards education in Arizona.
Instead of working with the school districts and this body, the AEA and the Democrats opted to work against school teachers and the students of Arizona.
The teacher’s union (Arizona Education Association) actively opposed a bill (HB2630) that sought to give school districts more time before notifying teachers about renewal of their contracts for the upcoming school year. The plan was to change the teacher notification period from April 15th to June 15th to allow districts to gain a better understanding of their budgets for the coming school year.
However, the AEA and Democrats severely exaggerated the size of the GOP education cuts, saying Republicans sought to pass the bill to hide huge budget reductions to education. The GOP has been vindicated as the teachers who received reduction-in-force notices in April are now being rehired by their respective school districts.
A recent article in The Arizona Republic, “Valley district recall teachers laid off in April” details the school districts rehiring teachers.
Examples of teachers being rehired include:
- Gilbert Public Schools has rehired 130 of 267 teachers who received pink slip notifications in April.
- Peoria Unified School District is recalling 188 of the more than 300 teachers previously laid off.
- Dysart Unified School District has recalled 104 of 209 laid-off teachers.
- Scottsdale Unified School District said last month that it could fill 129.5 of the 221 positions cut in April.
- Deer Valley Unified School District has recalled 71 of 105 teachers.
John Wright from the Arizona Education Association in particular needs to apologize to teachers for instilling fear and spreading inaccurate information. Wright claimed cuts to education would be over $990 million to K-12 alone.
The recent Majority budget passed by the Legislature consisted of $220 million in cuts to education, or approximately 2 percent of their overall budget. And as the Majority assumed, the federal government has approved $832 million of stimulus funds to be applied towards education in Arizona.
Instead of working with the school districts and this body, the AEA and the Democrats opted to work against school teachers and the students of Arizona.