Moreno Valley teachers
agree to furlough days!
5:26 PM PDTon Tuesday, July 14, 2009
A tentative agreement reached Monday means 87 Moreno Valley teachers may return to their classrooms next month.
In a packed board meeting, the Moreno Valley Board of Education announced that the district's approximately 1,850 teachers had agreed to each take two furlough days to save jobs threatened by layoffs. Further budget cuts caused the district to consider the layoffs again, officials said.
The agreement reached Monday morning calls for teachers to take two unpaid days off when students are not in school. The association also will work with the district to find money for 9.5 nonteaching positions that otherwise may still be cut this summer.
"This is a first," Moreno Valley Educators Association President Janet MacMillan said of the furlough days.
The school board made $23 million in cuts before approving the district's $284 million budget on June 30. District officials still needed to trim another $20 million because of state budget woes.
The agreement reached Monday came after a teachers rally Friday and letters to school board members.
Sixth-grade teacher Laurie Warner wore a pink shirt Monday as a reminder of the pink slips. "I think in the end, what came through was they cared about their employees," she said.
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