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The furlough debate

The state budget passed this week and with it the General Assembly bestowed upon school boards the ability to impose furloughs. As it happens Superintendent Green’s budget proposal includes a two-day furlough as a possible cost-cutting measure.

It was generally understood that school boards could cut pay but giving folks a day off to compensate for that cut was up for some debate.

The talk in Guilford County has been that a furlough would only be enacted if the state budget cut funding deeply. The state budget impact locally is still being mulled over but by most accounts it’s better than planned for.

However, Green said during recent school board meeting that he’d consider furloughs before making the deep administrative job cuts that he also proposes at the same level of cuts as the furlough.

I expect the decision to be made during the next board meeting, scheduled for July 13.

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Posted by J. Brian Ewing on Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11:06 am

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Panacea

July 1, 2010 - 11:28 am EDT

Public perception is administration is getting a free ride while teachers suffer. Green needs to address that; either convince the public it is not so, or make the administrative cuts FIRST.

JackK

July 2, 2010 - 12:36 pm EDT

Brian,

Mr. Green will ask for a furlough of teachers before making any adminstrative cuts, and at the same time the BOE will not try to collect money from parents whose children have charged their lunch all year. Of course, the BOE will acquiesce to Mr. Green, so we will have the spectacle of money being taken from people who have done no wrong while no one will insist that people pay up. Is there something wrong with this picture? Let's everyone hold the BOE and Mr. Green accountable to the statute, which states that all bonuses must be eliminated AND there must be a public meeting to disclose all of the GCS financial dealings and status BEFORE declaring a furlough.