Sentences with phrase «furlough days»

Already, schools have been forced to raise class sizes, institute unpaid furlough days for staff, lay off teachers, and cut back on essential programs that our kids need to be successful.

Teachers are also expected to purchase their own supplies for their classrooms, take furlough days when CPS can not afford to pay them, and work secondary jobs in order to ensure their income is sustainable relative to the cost of living in Chicago.

Park District officials are still negotiating with unions to accept eight furlough days as part of the plan.

The district faces more furlough days to cut spending.

Lingle is asking teachers to convert three fewer planning days to instructional days than she had previously sought, which would help regain 24 of the 27 remaining teacher furlough days scheduled to shutter schools statewide this school year and next.

I'm sure if my spouse received such an exorbitant increase in income I could afford a few furlough days without complaint.

The Mt. Diablo district has proposed identifying up to seven dates, depending on midyear cuts, as possible furlough days to be taken away from the normal 180 - day school year.

Previously, district General Superintendent Timothy Mitchell had announced that up to 100 jobs at the Park District could be eliminated from the payroll next year if the unions rejected furlough days.

Neighborhood park offerings are not likely to be reduced because of layoffs this year after most of the Chicago Park District unions agreed to accept furlough days in 2010, saving the district $ 2.3 million.

The union also wants employers to allow workers to request specific furlough days when possible.

To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.

Some details have already emerged on the deals, which have no pay increases, include the 16 unpaid furlough days which amount to roughly a 3 percent pay cut, and call for higher contributions for pensions and health insurance.

The deals included no pay increases, factored in 16 furlough days Doyle ordered state employees to take in the current state budget and called for 5 percent increases in health care contributions.

My big kids are finally back at school today, after a snow day and 4 furlough days!!!! Hallelujah!!!

Over the years UTLA agreed to several furlough days to maintain current class sizes but the district has phased those out using Proposition 30 revenues.

Teachers» compensation was basically «frozen,» and furlough days enacted by many districts resulted in pay cuts for teachers.

A recent ritual of midyear furlough days and budget cuts would also be avoided, officials said.

Another question I have is this: Every year there are cuts made to the budget resulting in less professional development, more students in the classroom, deteriorating buildings, less materials, furlough days where students aren't even there, extra work because the support staff has been laid off.

While teachers and parents say they understand the difficult decisions facing Stratford town leaders, they stand firmly against cuts to teaching staff, proposed furlough days that would close the entire school district, and other actions that threaten to erode their students» education.

Other districts are adopting furlough days and going to four - day weeks.

Members of New York's second largest state government union, the Public Employees Federation (PEF), have voted to ratify a four - year contract that includes a three year freeze in base pay, ten payless furlough days, and a permanent increase in employee contributions to health insurance.

The overall salary cuts coupled with furlough days will save the district $ 5.04 million.

California's economy continues to struggle to the extent that some teachers have been warned that they face an unprecedented 20 furlough days later this year.

In case you're wondering why CTU members plan to protest instead of work: Wednesday is the second of three furlough days Chicago Public Schools imposed earlier this year for teachers and school - based workers.

I think that most people are starting to recognize that funding education at 2008 levels by the year 2021 is not sufficient to pay for an adequate education (hence tuition increases at UC system)(hence furlough days and increased class sizes at my District) especially if the State now wants to mandate that Districts increase their contribution to CalSTRS and CalPERS.

In Robbinsville, the New Jersey Supreme Court considered whether Keyport «supports a general proposition that, in times of economic crisis, a school board may unilaterally impose furlough days on teaching staff members in contravention of the parties» collective negotiation agreement governing terms and conditions of employment.»

Wages and benefits were slashed, and many people were forced to take unpaid furlough days.

«You see, people taking furlough days, you see people taking modest raises or pay cuts, you see digging deeper in their pockets, you see higher class sizes, you see effects for families teachers and kids,» Weingarten said.

And in Connecticut, state workers are being pressured to accept a wage freeze, more furlough days and a higher retirement age.

Average teacher compensation increased $ 10,000 in 2013 - 14 and the Capistrano Unified School District used 3 Instructional furlough days and increased class sizes by 1.5 students across all grades to pay for that.

He said he had tried to avoid layoffs by offering for members to forgo pay raises, take on more of their health care expenses, and accept furlough days.

Paterson does plan to take the same eight furlough days as the workers.

Instead of salary increases, more often than not teacher compensation is being reduced through methods such as mandatory furlough days, higher co-pays or deductions for health benefits, a freeze on cost - of - living allowances, and so on.

The Vermont National Guard says the number of furlough days for about 500 of its federal technicians is being reduced from 14 to 11.

The catch: The money can be used only if the teachers union and governor reach a deal to put the state's 171,000 public school students back in class for six remaining teacher furlough days this school year and 17 next school year.

By a 4 - to - 1 margin Wednesday night, Service Employees International Union, Local 73 voted to ratify a contract with the Park District that includes eight furlough days.

Mitchell has asked unions representing parks workers to agree to take as many as 16 furlough days this year and in 2010.

At a time when Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago's 50 aldermen are collecting annual pay increases, Daley has no business asking rank - and - file city workers to take unpaid furlough days to help balance the city's budget, a labor leader said Tuesday.

For the last two years, Park District officials relied on employees taking eight furlough days a year to balance the budget, but «the unions, for whatever reason, didn't want to agree to furlough days this year,» Mitchell said.

According to the memo that accompanies the governor's program bill, each furlough day would save the state an estimated $ 30 million and «should not jeopardize health and safety.»

The governor negotiated a contract with the Public Employees Federation that included a three - year wage freeze and furlough days, along with givebacks for health care.

PEF and CSEA agreed to contracts that freeze wages for two years, require employees to pay more for their health insurance benefits, and nine furlough days, which they will be reimbursed for at the end of the contract.