Northside ISD School Board Decides To Keep 437 New Probationary Teachers
Just as the Northside ISD School Board was about to go into executive session Tuesday night, Superintendent Dr. John Folks, recommended they not terminate 437 new teachers. "He told them he could find the money elsewhere in the budget," said Pascual Gonzalez, NISD spokesman.More than 400 teachers in their first year with Northside Independent School District were spared Tuesday after trustees unanimously approved renewing their contracts for the next school year.
At a board meeting, Superintendent John Folks told trustees he would not recommend declining to renew any teacher contracts for financial reasons, including the contracts for 437 first-year teachers.
Schools Say They May Sue To Get Money For Students
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) – Trustees from four North Texas school districts hint they’ll do whatever it take – even suing the state if necessary – to get the money they say they need for their students.
Trustees from Arlington, Cedar Hill, Dallas, and Plano claim to represent the thoughts of 161 districts locally. They insist the proposed house budget would mean $900 to $1,000 less for each student… and say the senate version is not much better.
The districts promise they’ll do what they have to do for students, even as far as going to court. “Historically, to truly change funding in the state of Texas, what’s occurred? Lawsuits,” said Arlington ISD trustee Bowie Hogg.
Hogg and the others trustees say their districts have already been through rounds of cuts. They hint unless if the legislature ignores them, they will go to court. “Do we want to go down that option?” Hogg asks, “ Not at all; that’s not a good way for everyone to work together in the state of Texas.”
Areas McKinney ISD is looking at for layoffs
Here's the list of employment areas McKinney ISD will review as it looks to cut jobs because of declining funding from the state: * Central Office Human Resources Department coordinators and support personnel.
At least teachers are not first on the list in this district. For a complete list, visit the link above.
* Central Office Student Services Division
* Central Office internal auditing services and/or departments
* Central Office Communications Department support personnel
* Central Office Superintendent's support personnel
* Business Services support personnel
* Support Services support personnel
* Central Office Childcare Programs, support personnel
* Central Office programs and/or departments that provide support for Elementary and Secondary Education instruction, programs, departments, and/or services
* LINC Program
Many district like Conroe ISD, LCISD and CFISD didn't have to RIF a single teacher even with the state budget cuts coming and they didn't point the finger at the state either when this years cuts came down, because they were in a good financial situation with a balanced budget and less substantial long-term BOND debt. So you see local districts should have been operating in a fiscally transparent and open budget process, rather than living like there is no tomorrow. Now the "fat cat", tax, borrow and spend superintendents are pointing the finger at the state. Too bad they were too busy "vendor feeding" for their special projects then to worry about the students or the teachers they were going to have to RIF to cover their friends projects and school they now can't fill with competent, experienced educators....
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