Hillsborough teachers union pushing back against likely cuts to 92 instructional positions
HCTA has filed official grievance
Hillsborough teachers union pushing back against cuts
and last updated 2021-04-20 08:09:49-04
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. â The Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association is now pushing back against the most recent round of school district budget cuts, saying the district violated the contracts of dozens of teachers. They re now working to have them reinstated this fall.
This past Friday, the Hillsborough County School District sent out an email to more than a hundred instructors saying it s unlikely they will have a job next school year because of budget problems.
potential disaster. and for our competitiveness with the rest of the world as the whole world starts to recover from an economy and different countries are, frankly, recovering more quickly than others. what about any kind of silver lining? i hate to say there s a silver lining in tens of thousands of teacher job cuts, but could this force districts to make big changes? could it force reform? there s that old saying in washington, never let a good crisis go to waste. yes. well, as you know, we ve been pushing a very, very strong reform agenda. we ve been extraordinarily pleased with the level of progress. 48 states together working on raising standards, making sure we re getting great teachers and principals into underserved communities. so we re pushing a very strong reform agenda. that s my biggest fear is if you see these kinds of massive layoffs and class size skyrocketing, summer school being eliminated, it s hard to talk about reform when you re simply trying to survive. an
education, none of this is good for the country s economy. i m urging congress to make emergency action, there s a jobs bill that senator harkin worked hard, congressman miller, and we would love to see a couple hundred thousand teacher jobs be safe for this fall. we don t want to see class sizes to go to 40, we don t want to go to four-day weeks and have several hundr0 hundred thousand teachers being cut. different countries are frankly recovering more quickly than others. what about a silver lining, i hate to say there s a silver lining in tens of thousands of teacher job cuts. could it force reform? there s that old saying in washington, never let a good crisis go to waste. we re pushing a very, very strong reform agenda, we have been extraordinarily pleased with the level of progress, 48
rally. we ll continue to update you on the rally and what it actually accomplishes throughout the day. meantime, school districts across the country have been hit hard by deep budget cuts and increased costs. cnn s ines ferre looks at the state of our education system right now. hi, fred. we ve seen teacher job cuts, after school programs ending and in some cases shorter school weeks, increasing class sizes. since the start of the recession, at least 29 states have cut spending on k through 12. 39 states cut funding for public colleges or hyped up tuition. and in some cases both. a widely unpopular move. you may remember the hundreds of protests, march, students and teachers across the country came out in force for what the so-called day of action. front and center in this discussion was california. at issue there, budget cuts for the state university system totaling $1 billion. now, some 22,000 teachers in