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3 Assembly Democrats call on teachers to skip pay hikes
By Tom Precious
NEWS ALBANY BUREAU
Updated: March 24, 2010, 12:00 am / 149 comments
Published: March 23, 2010, 4:07 pm
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ALBANY — Saying "teachers must be part of the solution," three Assembly Democrats are calling on public school teachers statewide to voluntarily give up pay raises this year to save more than $1 billion and prevent layoffs and larger class sizes.
The letter, authored by Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, came as the Assembly was preparing its own state budget plan that would cut $800 million or so in state school aid from Albany this YearThe letter, authored by Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, came as the Assembly was preparing its own state budget plan that would cut $800 million or so in state school aid from Albany this year.
The Assembly education cut is far less than the $1.4 billion Senate Democrats approved in school aid reductions as part of a nonbinding resolution on Monday. The Senate number conforms to the amount Gov. David A. Paterson has proposed in school aid cuts to help lower a deficit that tops $9 billion.That Assembly Democrats — a group long accused by fiscal conservatives as being cozy with the state's big teachers union — would call on the president of the New York State United Teachers to help push for a pay freeze and signals the recognition by many rank-and-file lawmakers of the state's fiscal plight.School districts have warned that a $1.4 billion cut in school aid could result in 15,000 teacher layoffs. But the Assembly Democrats writing to NYSUT today said a pay freeze by all teachers needs to be on the table.
The letter seeking a voluntary freeze on pay increases was signed by Hoyt and Democratic Assembly members Ginny Fields of Suffolk County and Michael Benjamin of the Bronx. Hoyt, a Buffalo Democrat, said more of his Democratic colleagues have expressed a possible interest in signing on.
In an interview, Hoyt said the voluntary pay freeze by teachers will avoid the mass layoffs predicted that will affect both teachers and students
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Does this pay freeze apply to built-in step increases also because it should.
ReplyDeleteIt should include step increases, but in our district They will never do that. Our teachers feel they are entitled regardless of the hardships that the parents of the children they are teaching are going through. One day this dream job will be over for the teachers and they will have to deal with reality whether they like it or not
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