In the year of 2009-2010, hundreds of employees were given pink slips, asked to resign, forced to retire or otherwise convinced to leave Fort Bend ISD under the premise that FBISD needed to fix its budget problems. The problem is that mistakes were made last year by Fort Bend human resources regarding whom to lay off and how many. For example, many Special Education teachers were either riffed (let go due to reduction in force) or transferred because the district assessment was that there were far too many Special Ed. teachers compared to the number of students they had in classrooms. Now in 2011 Special Education teachers are off of the potential riff list. Why? Because there is now a shortage of Special Education teachers. This brings up a couple of questions. One, can the teachers in Fort Bend ISD trust human resources to do a better job than it did last year? Two, who will be sticking around to find out?
And now in 2011 there is an "incentive" to resign. Ten percent of base pay will be paid to the employee if they are one of the first to resign. Unless, of course, you are teaching in one of the critical need areas. Question: Why are there critical need areas if FBISD was letting people go in those areas last year? The critical need areas are high school Science, high school Math, foreign language or deaf education.
Clearly Fort Bend ISD human resources is in critical need of high school math skills as well.
They need to call this Jenney's RIF and he has another one coming. This "vendor" feeding debt riddled man has to go!
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