Friday, May 07, 2010
KY Teachers Face Pay Reduction
KENTUCKY...
The legislature is not going to fund two instructional days added to the school year in 2007, and because of this teachers are having to fund those days by receiving cuts in their pay, said Perry County Board of Education Superintendent John Paul Amis. The pay cut will average out to an approximate one percent cut, Amis said.
He said depending on the level of education of teachers and how long they have been working will determine exactly how this most recent pay cut will impact individual teachers. This is not the only cut teachers are likely to see during the next school year. The Kentucky Teacher Retirement System has been lacking funding for some time. Because of this, current teachers will be made to fund the system with money taken from their paychecks creating an additional fourth of a percent pay cut.
Education funding has been cut several times during the last several years as a means to try and balance the state budget. The Kentucky legislature needs to find a solution for this that does not involve continually cutting funding for education.
The legislature is not going to fund two instructional days added to the school year in 2007, and because of this teachers are having to fund those days by receiving cuts in their pay, said Perry County Board of Education Superintendent John Paul Amis. The pay cut will average out to an approximate one percent cut, Amis said.
He said depending on the level of education of teachers and how long they have been working will determine exactly how this most recent pay cut will impact individual teachers. This is not the only cut teachers are likely to see during the next school year. The Kentucky Teacher Retirement System has been lacking funding for some time. Because of this, current teachers will be made to fund the system with money taken from their paychecks creating an additional fourth of a percent pay cut.
Education funding has been cut several times during the last several years as a means to try and balance the state budget. The Kentucky legislature needs to find a solution for this that does not involve continually cutting funding for education.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 8:55 AM 
