Post by Chris_Wendt on Jan 20, 2011 16:32:59 GMT -5
This year, 2010-11, the administrators and teachers of Fairfield, CT school took a goose egg, meaning a zero percent raise, in order to save the district $2 Million.
I don't know about you, but I am impressed by the spirit of cooperation I am finding up there in CT.
I would love to be equally impressed by this kind of consideration, you know, down here in Wantagh.
What do you say?
Chris Wendt
"Iacono said it was too early to talk about whether a 0 percent increase was possible in the 2011-12 fiscal year because the school board hadn't done an operational audit of its budget and didn't know what the needs of the school district would be in that fiscal year....
"I don't know if we can do a 0 next year; maybe we can, maybe we can't. It's too early," Iacono said, adding that residents should allow the school board to do its audit and allow incoming Supt. of Schools David Title to assess the needs of the district.
Iacono said teachers and school administrators in bargaining units had accepted 0 percent salary increases in 2010-11, but that wouldn't be the case in the following year, when they will receive 2-percent raises under a contract approved last fall. "At a minimum, we're going to have those contractual obligations," she said....
Daniello said the 0-percent raises accepted by teachers and administrators in bargaining units indicates to her that the school board's budget next fiscal year is fatter than it appears. "The teachers took no increase this year so it's more than $2 million they got this year on the backs of teachers," she said. "I was really impressed the teachers did that - it's always the little guy that pays up....
I don't know about you, but I am impressed by the spirit of cooperation I am finding up there in CT.
I would love to be equally impressed by this kind of consideration, you know, down here in Wantagh.
What do you say?
Chris Wendt