While DOE is on furlough today, the budget ax comes down
I think I know now why this is a furlough day for the state Department of Education - the governor released his proposed state budget this afternoon and there are lots of questions about the cuts to education. (I am only kidding – the DOE furlough day was planned before the governor decided to release his budget today.)
In a nutshell, k-12 takes an additional 3 percent cut in the current fiscal 2010 budget and teachers must take three furlough days before June 30.
The Quality Basic Education funding formula shows a $450 million reduction the rest of 2010 and $527 million in cuts for 2011.
We’ll look at the budget in-depth over the next weeks.
In the meantime, here is the release from the governor’s office on the budget:
ATLANTA – Governor Sonny Perdue today released his Amended Fiscal Year 2010 and Fiscal Year 2011 budgets today, delivering functionally balanced budgets that also continue to invest in Georgia’s future.
“We have actively managed the budget in a step-down approach as revenues have continued to slide,” said Governor Perdue. “Just as Georgians are balancing their checkbooks and making tough decisions in difficult times, the state must and will do the same.”
Governor Perdue’s recommended Amended 2010 budget totals $17.4 billion, a $1.2 billion reduction from the original FY 2010 budget, and the 2011 budget stands at $18.2 billion.
While there are spending cuts throughout both budgets, the Governor is recommending additional funding into the state’s mental health system to stabilize staffing levels in state hospitals and improve care for patients. $20 million is called for in the AFY 2010 budget and an additional $50 million in FY 2011.
“We cannot retreat from our duty to protect those who cannot protect themselves,” Governor Perdue said during his State of the State address on Wednesday. “I am convinced that Georgia can, Georgia must, and Georgia will adequately care for citizens in our state’s mental health program, even though this has been a daunting challenge that precedes my time as Governor.”
The Amended FY 2010 budget also includes $27 million to provide disaster assistance funding for storm damage and floods in south Georgia this spring and for September flooding in the Metro Atlanta area.
The FY 2011 budget includes just over $900 million in bond projects, including $168 million in construction, equipment and school buses for Georgia’s K-12 schools. There is also $121 million in projects at our state’s universities and another $44 million at technical schools, for a total of $333 million in education that signals a clear and continuing investment in Georgia’s future.
As he announced yesterday, the Governor also is recommending $300 million in transportation projects in the bond package as well. In addition to the $300 million, the Governor also recommended $68 million for the deepening of the Savannah River harbor. As the environmental studies near completion, the joint federal-state project will deepen the shipping channel from 42 feet to 48 feet allowing the world’s biggest ships to call on the Savannah Port.
To download a copy of both the Amended FY 2010 budget and the FY 2011 visit the Office of Planning and Budget’s home page — http://www.opb.state.ga.us/ — and look on the top right for the link.
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irisheyes
January 15th, 2010
5:25 pm
I see, that while Sonny has decided us to fulough us for another three days this school year, he doesn’t find it the least bit disingenuous to have us sign a 190 contract for next school year without being able to guarantee me that it’ll be worth the paper it’s printed on. Look, cut our contracts to 185 days. At least I’ll be able to plan accordingly. Otherwise, what’s the point?
Lynn
January 15th, 2010
5:49 pm
The furlough days must absolutely correspond to days students would be in school. It is time for the taxpayers to share the burden of the financial crisis of the school. Don’t take a planning day when you know that teachers will have to do the work anyway.
Dana not @GaDOE
January 15th, 2010
6:24 pm
Now now now, be nice Maureen — GaDOE’s furlough days (a total of 10 this fiscal year) were already planned.
cricket
January 15th, 2010
7:05 pm
I wonder if any teachers who broke their 2009/2010 “contracts” challenged the validity of the contract when their school system reported them to the PCS for abandonment. Wouldn’t the contracts we all signed last spring be invalid due to the state violating the terms of those contracts by furloughing us?
Interested Participant
January 15th, 2010
7:25 pm
While I don’t like the furlough, I have to admit I was praying for just 3 days. We were hearing 4 or 5 through the rumor mill. Hope it stays that way.
NA
January 15th, 2010
7:32 pm
There are no more days to take from us except for scheduled school days. We have 1 post planning day that my county can take. The other two will have to result in canceled school.
NA
January 15th, 2010
7:33 pm
Also- I have no problem with them taking the post planning day. My last 2 days of school will be spent packing up my room.
Maureen Downey
January 15th, 2010
7:38 pm
Dana, I know. It was a coincidence. Not a lucky one for poor Matt, who will come back to all the calls Tuesday. Hope life is good in sunny Maryland
Maureen
ScienceTeacher671
January 15th, 2010
7:47 pm
cricket, our county added a “subject to the availability of funds” clause in case of furlough days, but I think there is still some question as to whether the furloughs were legal.
In some states the unions would file a challenge, but unfortunately we don’t have any, and our “professional organizations” seem to be rather toothless.
Interested Participant
January 15th, 2010
7:56 pm
I just want it noted that the new budget calls for cutting the National Board Certification “Stipend”. Remember that when the Governor wants to talk about offering Teacher “Bonuses” for effective teaching. They will possibly lower the overall basic salary schedule with the plum “bonuses” to make up the difference (and them some) for good teachers. What happens when revenues decline? Why, we can cut the teacher “bonuses”! That’s just extra for them anyways. Our share of insurance keeps increasing every year while our pay stays the same or decreases (as of recently). Do you really want to rely on a bonus (that could be changed or cut on a whim) when insurance gets to the point it costs 400-500 a month out of our pockets?
I don’t have any problem with the concept of a performance based pay plan. BUT, I do NOT trust the politicians to keep their end of the bargain on the finances. They have already shown us that our 190 day contracts are not worth the paper they are written on. I don’t trust them anymore. I know we all want what’s best for students, but sometimes I wish someone would ask the question- “In this situation, what is best for our teachers?”
Cobb's take
January 15th, 2010
8:02 pm
From Cobb county communications: ” The Cobb County School District does maintain one advantage regarding additional furlough days. Most Cobb teachers would have been required to make up three missed days as a result of school being closed in September 2009 due to flooding, and for the Jan. 8, 2010 snow day. If the state furlough is approved, most Cobb teachers would no longer be required to make up those three missed days.”
Funny thing, though – I only had TWO days off – I went to school the second day of the flood as we were told that teachers needed to report. Just call it what it is – a pay cut…because most of us are working the same amount of time anyway.
abacus2
January 15th, 2010
8:07 pm
Would someone please explain (in English, not legalese) why GA teachers can not have a union? I know GA is a “right to work” state, but no one has been able to explain to me exactly what that means. If other states can legally have unions why can’t we? If it is truly illegal for GA teachers to unionize how do we go about changing the law?
Lynn
January 15th, 2010
8:35 pm
As a parent, I believe that the furlough days must be regular school days — not planning days. I think it is essential for the average Georgian to share in the pain of the budget crisis as we all benefit from GA’s relatively low taxes.
Quite frankly, end school three days earlier. The world won’t end.
North Fulton Mom
January 15th, 2010
9:11 pm
I’m all for low taxes and fiscal conservatism. However, in my view, education and transportation are investments and not discretionary items that you cut to make ends meet. 3 days won’t make the world end but they will limit the material students will learn which is unacceptable.
D Miller
January 15th, 2010
9:31 pm
Union Man
Abacus2 There is no ban on unions in Georgia. The problem is that there is no law permitting collective bargaining for teachers. Of course there are those of us who believe that without collective bargaining you can’t really be a union. The solution is a law that permits collective bargaining.
adam
January 15th, 2010
9:32 pm
Enough is enough! In an economic recession the worst thing politicians can do is make cuts in education. It effects the next generation. in too many ways to mention in this space. It’ll be years before GA teachers recoup their losses and GOP members under the gold dome see this as a grand opportunity to cut funds from public education and pump what little is left into their Christian faith based charter sham schools.
high school teacher
January 15th, 2010
9:35 pm
I’m not that good at math, but I don’t understand…
The amended FY2010 budget is down from the projected 18.6 billion to 17.4 billion, with 427 million in education. Teachers will be furloughed a total of 6 days during FY2010. I get that.
What I don’t get is that they are cutting another $527 million in education alone for FY2011, yet the projected budget is 18.2 billion. Why such an austere cut next year when our projected budget is higher than the current budget this year? Either they are really boosting that projection with false hopes, or they are already allocating former education money elsewhere. The third option is that I am not good at math, as previously stated. Don’t worry; I teach English and can make my way through Algebra and Geometry when necessary…
To abacus2
January 15th, 2010
9:35 pm
I may be wrong, but from what I understand, it’s NOT the fact that Georgia is a right to work state, but the fact that teachers are (sort of) state employees that keeps us from being able to collectively bargain – in other words, we can have a union, we just can’t do anything with it, lol. Anyone with more knowledge, please feel free to correct me.
Coming from a state with small town and city systems, where teachers aren’t considered state employees, some of the stuff that goes on down here is surprising. I was never a teacher up north, so I can’t do a comparison, but I know that I never think of myself as a state employee – I think of myself as an employee of my district. When stuff like this happens, it always makes me scratch my head. I know times are tough (though the business news folks and economists are saying we’re technically out of the recession) and I am happy to have a job, but I question not only the state’s decision in this, but also all the folks out there who are ok with it – it’s our kids’ education, people. Wake up. Raise the tobacco tax or something. Eliminate some of the testing. Rewrite the laws that require new textbooks every so many years. Eliminate some of the redundant paperwork and the administrative bloat whose jobs are to monitor the redundant paperwork!
To abacus2
January 15th, 2010
9:37 pm
This will result in a double-post, but oh, well…Abacus2, from what I understand, it’s not the fact we are a right to work state, but the fact that teachers are considered state employees, that keeps us from being able to collectively bargain. Please correct me if I am wrong.
D Miller
January 15th, 2010
9:47 pm
Abacus2
Most states allow teachers and public employees to collectively bargain. This law needs to be changed in Georgia, although it probably would be easier for a federal law that guarantees collective bargaining rights for all employees. It should be obvious that the right to join a union loses most meaning when you can’t bargain.
ScienceTeacher671
January 15th, 2010
10:20 pm
Dana & Maureen, not blaming the DOE, but it might not have been a coincidence on the Governor’s part. Isn’t it traditional to present the new budget during the state of the state address?
Cobb Parent
January 15th, 2010
10:25 pm
Lynn, if 3 lost school days simply don’t matter to you, you either need to ramp up your expectations for what your child accomplishes in school or your school district needs to ramp up its curriculum. My son gets to sleep past midnight almost every day trying to keep up with his 7 AP/post-AP courses. Thanks to an early acceptance, he will be going to an Ivy this fall and is trying his best to keep up his rigorous schedule so that he will be ready once he starts college. Having seen how much material his teachers cover every day, I can affirm that 3 days will have a huge effect on his education. Education funding should be cut only as a last resort, imo, and given the wasteful spending at all levels of government right now, I doubt we are at the last resort stage.
abacus2
January 15th, 2010
11:11 pm
Thanks for the info everyone! Next questions – Is there a lawyer out there willing to help us? And do we have enough GA teachers with the guts to say “enough is enough?”
William Casey
January 15th, 2010
11:50 pm
I just found out today that Fulton County’s insurance is increasing by 10%. And we don’t need a public option? Teachers need a real union. The furlough bit would be a joke if it weren’t so painful. And as for the sanctity of contracts… it’s a one way street in Georgia. How many furlough days is Sonny taking?
Veteran teacher, 2
January 16th, 2010
12:01 am
It is pretty simple. Governor Purdue did not get the firestorm he was expecting after the frist three furlough days. So, since he is not up for re-election, he does more furlough days. However, most of the legislators are wondering what the fall-out will be. LET’S LET THEM KNOW RIGHT NOW WHAT THE FALL-OUT WILL BE!! It should be quite simple. If state employees are furloughed again, there WILL be new state government after the next election.
Send a message to your representative and senator. If more furloughs occur, I WILL vote against you. Let them do the math on how many teachers and other state employees there actually are.
Also note that there will be a rise in health premiums yet again. Has anyone else noticed that coverage is down, too. Ten years ago we had one of the best health plans around. Now the bare shell of health coverage is barely good for catastrophic illness.
I am very ashamed that I used to be a card-carrying Republican. The Republican Governor and Legislature has gutted most of the state. I sincerely hope that some watchdog group will go over this proposed budget with a fine-toothed comb. How many other fish camps are there in the budget? Why are the museums in Houston County still open? How many state agencies were added during the Purdue years? How much funding goes to said agencies? Where is the new $800 million in the 2011 budget going?
Let the legislature know we have NO CONFIDENCE in them!!
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Private School Guy
January 16th, 2010
6:30 am
I like what Cricket said regarding abandonment of contract. I would like to take that one step further and charge the PSC to take action against the school system authorities for violation of contract and strip their certification and as well as their ability to seek employment.
By law a contract is a door that swings both ways.
Private School Guy
January 16th, 2010
6:40 am
One thing regarding abandonment of contract I have never understood, does this only apply to contracts with public schools? Or can the PSC step in when there is contention between an employee and a private school? And do any other licensed professions have the same policy regarding licensing and violation of monetary contracts? So would a doctor lose his license to practice medicine if he breaks a contract with a clinic or hospital he’s under contract with.
Lynn
January 16th, 2010
8:01 am
CobbParent
I too have a senior (accepted early to a top 20) with an AP heavy schedule but by the end of school, the AP exams will be history and the courses are essentially over. Again, the last week of school is generally a joke (our seniors are out those days anyway) and in elementary school, they aren’t doing nearly as much that week as previous weeks. He also took a college class this year that he declared great and he learned so much — and it meant 3-4 hours a week for less weeks than the public school semester.
I will take furlough days over increased class size anytime. Regardless of waste and fat, the bulk of any school systems (and the state’s) budget is salaries. We either need to increase revenue (which doesn’t seem likely at the state level) or cut expenses. I wish my school system would consider a small millage rate increase with the guarantee that the increased revenue would be used to eliminate class size increases, but most systems have seen a drop in property values that would probably make the increase ineffective.
with an idea
January 16th, 2010
8:09 am
Suspend CRCT instead. Let’s alternate CRCT testing with IOWAs. Apparently, there is no impact on a student for failure anyway.
pay attention folks
January 16th, 2010
8:30 am
I would suggest they suspend the GA High School Graduation Tests. They are not the rule of thumb in every state (I believe 28 states total have some sort of graduation test). If a student passes the 24 courses required for graduation, then they should graduate. It shouldn’t take yet another set of expensive standarized tests to verify this. All of this testing has been a goldmine for the test publishing companies, and has not generated a direct link to improved student achievement.
d
January 16th, 2010
8:38 am
How much could be saved in a year if all standard tests were suspended during these tough economic times? We already have plenty of data on every child in the system to last us a few years. So, lets try cutting back in that area.
I would like an investigative reporter to follow the money on all the testing funds. Start with state tests, but don’t forget all that gateway test money in Gwinnett County. Follow the money.
flipper
January 16th, 2010
8:52 am
I’m with d… sure cut some days… the testing days. Also, I would be in full support of an investigation into the testing scam.
frustrated in Cobb
January 16th, 2010
9:10 am
I”m sure those teaching IB, AP and Honors classes will have no problem with pay based on student achievement..but what about those of us with on lovel and remedial kids. Please, sometimes it is just the luck of the draw. One semester our “clients” do well and other semesters you are faced with severe behavioral problems. Is it our fault that achievement is not met? No! If the county would remove the severe behavioral problems out, I could actually teach. No amount of classroom management can deal with a kid who is 17 in 9th grade and blatantly chooses to not work..but I’m stuck with them no matter how many referrals I write. So I deserve lesser pay for that?
Gwinnett Parent
January 16th, 2010
9:11 am
Have to agree with Cobb Parent. If we cut 3 days off the last week, the “useless days” will just be moved. Regardless of how many days we have in a year, the last week is always lost.
We need to find somewhere else to cut. Does everyone think the teacher will actually run the class with the same amount of enthusiasm and devotion with a significant pay cut and larger classes? Looks like private schools are going to be filled to capacity in 2010-2011. I bet there will be a lot of oppenings in the education field by 2012. Yes, let’s audit the state’s books.
Joy in Teaching
January 16th, 2010
9:23 am
Perdue is a boil on the butt of society. The man has wasted millions of tax dollars fighting the unwinnable Lake Lanier water war instead of investing that money in alternate sustainable water sources for the future.
I’m a teacher and have been one for the past 21 years. However, my job is not what it once was as I am no longer actually allowed to teach students because of NCLB. These days, I have to target my lessons to the absolute lowest functioning student in my class so that we make AYP.
There is lots of waste in education. Most of it is tied to federal and state law. About 95% of the problems in education could be easily fixed if we actually had someone in charge with the balls to do it:
1) Go back to grouping students by ability. If you have 30 students in a class with similar abilities, it is much easier to tailor lessons so that students actually learn and move forward instead of trying to come up with 10 lessons for the same number of students in the same space. Student achievement would actually increase dramatically.
2) Get rid of the bloat at central offices. I haven’t a clue what some of those people do or how they impact student learning, but they make at least 3 times what I make.
3) Get rid of the Department of Education on the federal level. Seriously limit its powers at the state level.
4) Get rid of the ridiculous notion that all students have the ability to go to college and we should try our darnest to send them there. Invest some serious money in Vocation education.
5) Stop promoting students who cannot read, write, and do math on grade level. Stop worrying about their precious self esteem and give them something that they can actually feel good about instead of something artificial. All students can learn. Let’s give them the opportunity to actually do so instead of passing them on and hoping that they “get it” next year.
6) Understand that we have a whole generation of people who do not know how to balance a check book, understand how a cell phone contract works, or how to budget. Require that all students take (and pass) a consumer economics class before they even get out of middle school.
7) Allow schools to discipline disruptive and dangerous students. This does not mean that we beat them…but we do need to get their attention. All we are doing at the moment is providing them with a place to hone their criminal tendences so that they can continue their criminal behavior once they leave school. And they think they are invincible because they were coddled in school. Invest heavily in camps such as that Georgia Wilderness Camp up in North Georgia which did such good things with boys. (Oh yeah…the one that Perdue cut funds for.)
Public schools are no longer preparing students to function in society. Public schools are in the business of trying to fulfill the challenges of NCLB and other political endeavors.
Get politicians out of schools and give the control back to the schools and to communities.
Joy in Teaching
January 16th, 2010
9:24 am
My system has applied to count our “snow” day from last week as a furlough day.
Elizabeth
January 16th, 2010
9:34 am
I would love to see testing cut, but with the “pay for performance” plan, that won’t happen. How else can they justify (not) giving bonuses?
I agree that furlough days should impact students and parents. As for the Cobb parent whose son will be impacted bedcause of his AP classs– it is time you shared the impact of furlough days. Do you think that because students are not furloughed, you son’s quality of educational instruction will not be impacted? If so, you are very wrong. If this teacher is furloughed again, ther will be NO school work done on those days, nor will I meet any deadlines that require me to work without pay on those days to meet the school system’s deadline. My answer will be “sorry , I could not make the deadline because I was on “leave without pay”. It is time for EVERY teacher in the state to take this position– no pay, no work, officially or unofficially. If grades are not posted, if rooms are not cleaned out, if report cards are late and school transfer records not sent, then that is what should happen. I will come in the day AFTER the furlough day and finish my assigned duties because then it will be MY CHOICE to work without pay. All teachers do a lot of this– but it is on their schedule, not the school’s.In the North teachers belong to unions. The teachers cannot even be required to stay for a late meeting unless ovetime compensation is provided. If they have to cover a class, they must be paid extra. Secretaries do all of the typing and running off of teacher materials.Teachers who sign a contract in those ststes are guaranteeed to get that amount of pay. I never thought that I would want to see teachers join a union– but now I think it is the only way to save ourselves.
Teacher&mom
January 16th, 2010
9:39 am
Maureen, Would it be possible to have someone at the AJC look into the Perdue education budget/austerity cuts from the past 8 years? It would be helpful if someone broke this down into a concise analysis…perhaps even a few graphs. From what I understand, if you look at how much money local school systems received at the beginning of the Perdue administration and compare it to the present, the amount has decreased every year. I would love to see someone cut through the rhetoric and provide a fair, unbiased analysis, of the numbers.
Look closely at how these cuts have affected all GA schools….not just the metro county schools. Visit some schools… especially the rural schools and take a close look at the resources available to these schools. Talk to the librarians and teachers. Ask them how much money they have received in the past eight years to purchase books and supplies. Go through a science catalog and see how much you can buy with a $100 gift card.
jo jo
January 16th, 2010
10:40 am
I am glad I kept my $100.00 gift cards for a “Rainy Day”
How many Furlough Days are the politicians taking…I am sure Sonny can spare some of his money!
Greg Moris
January 16th, 2010
10:40 am
Why don’t we end all entitlement programs such as free breakfast and free lunches and require everyone regardless of financial circumstances to pay for their own childrens food at school. Another approach would be to save money by going to neighborhood schools and parents would have to provide transportation for their child to get to school. Then school systems could save money by cutting back on transportation cost. I literally have students that come to school for the purposes of getting a free ride for free daycare and two free meals. They do not come for an education only for welfare entitlements compliments of teachers and taxpayers.
Will
January 16th, 2010
10:42 am
Here we are telling our public school teachers they must take three more furlough days while the state’s flagship university announces it has hired a new defensive coordinator for $750,000 a year! Coach Mark Richt says, “I really feel like we hit the jackpot.” Yeah, coach, I’m sure our school teachers join you in your celebration.
jo jo
January 16th, 2010
10:52 am
Sonny days are not sunny days! Spend it like you got it and we will make more on our printing press. Break out the credit cards!
Oh man…I think I will leave the classroom and become a Superintendent their job is truly recession proof!
twodawgs
January 16th, 2010
10:55 am
In difficult economic times, all must do their share to cut spending. State employees have been furloughing for over a year. Child protective services is an important field. Some children in the classroom might not be there if not for CPS workers. Law enforcement is also furloughing. Lack of law enforcement resources is an open invitation for criminal activity to increase. But some teachers feel their job is TOO important to take cuts. Time to step up to the plate, teachers. All Georgians must do their part to survive. Would you prefer that some workers lose their jobs so you don’t have to miss a few days of work and pay?
jo jo
January 16th, 2010
11:00 am
Tell that to the bank….
Teach SS
January 16th, 2010
11:08 am
Hall county Schools (where I don’t teach but….) did furlough days “right”….they did not take away planning last semester but rather added a few vacation days for students and teachers like around Thanksgiving and a few half days….this semester, they want to use snow days first as furlough days and not make them up and then possibly end school earlier…like Lynn said, testing is done, all GPS requirements have been taught before testing so the end of the year can be cut short so do it! I know Hall Co Schools are facing a very tight money crisis, but congrats to not taking away planning days and using the excuse “teachers will work anyway”, etc…….now, if Gwinnett Co schools with their IE2 contract would just consider the same…we have 2 flood days to make up and now a snow day and those make up days have been announced on the website…so just end school earlier at this point!! You’ve already taken away February school holidays for everyone (students and faculty) and anymore snow days will mean our March holidays are gone…..let me tell you: working from January to Spring Break with only one holiday (MLK) is a LONG time with no break for students and teachers…….
Teach SS
January 16th, 2010
11:11 am
from the gainesvilletimes.com website about Hall Co and Gainesville City Schools furlough ideas:
Local school district leaders said they are on track to use the recent snow days as furloughs and will not make up the days at the end of the school year.
Gainesville Superintendent Merrianne Dyer said she was pleased there were no more than three furlough days, but is anxious to see how much more the final education budget will be cut.
“I was expecting worse than the three furlough days,” she wrote in an e-mail. “We will use the snow days, and hopefully, will use further snow days. We planned to address the decision about furlough days (at) our February Board work session, thinking that this would give us time to be sure of what we are facing.”
Most school systems already have taken three furlough days.
Hall County Superintendent Will Schofield said he hopes the legislature will leave the teacher furlough days at six total for the school year.
“I will be surprised if that changes much,” he said.
Teach SS
January 16th, 2010
11:13 am
Gwinnett County needs to do the same as Hall…our Feb planning day just turned into a snow make up day…anymore snow means our March holiday will become a make up day….it is quite hard to go from January until Spring Break with no break between the teachers and students….We love our students, but both sets need a small break from each other……like Lynn said, after all testing K-12 is done, then curriculum should have been taught so taking a few days at the end of the year is not a big deal……
lawdawg
January 16th, 2010
11:23 am
What a bunch of whiners. Those of us in the private sector already had our pay cut (and/or were laid off) before your first furlough day. Tax revenues are down. State employee salaries are a HUGE portion of the budget. Gov. Perdue is making tough choices. Would you rather have them to raise taxes on everyone when there is 10% unemployment so that you won’t be furloughed?
Most people in this state do not have employment contracts. Stop whining about “my contract said 190 days” bla bla bla. You realize you have no cause of action against the state unless it chooses to relinquish its sovereign immunity, don’t you?
Courtney
January 16th, 2010
11:56 am
There is so much waste money in education: but when they want to cut they got right after the teacher & students here in Georgia??? Time to move to a state that cares about its people.