Lots going on in District 204

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from the Sun Blog:

Lots going on in District 204


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By Chris Magee, moderatoron May 22, 2010 12:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBacks (0)
School District 204 has been busy lately. First, board members managed to find a compromise to preserve the music technique program that so many people thought was essential to maintaining a healthy music program. They did this by instituting a fee of a little more than a hundred dollars, which was compared to the price of calculators needed for some higher level math classes.

Next, the district said it would be rehiring 70 of the 145 teachers it said it was laying off. The district also approved a new contract with teachers that freezing wages for the next school year and has teachers pay more for health care. For the following year, teachers would receive a 1.26 percent raise.

Now, the district is considering urging lawmakers to approve a "deadbeat amendment" to state law that would allow the district to withhold making tax payments to the state while the state is delinquent in its payments to the district.

What are your thoughts on these developments?

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I have heard conflicting things about the "rehiring 70 of the 145 teachers it said it was laying off."

On the surface, it sounds like 70 people will get their jobs back but I have also heard that it involves simply filling the 70-teacher equivalent vacancies starting with people who did not lose their job and moving onto people who have 1 more year until tenure (a nice backdoor way to buy votes) ...and when it's all said and done you really don't end up re-hiring 70 physical bodies that lost their jobs.

How is this explicitly working? Anyone know for sure?