SOM Teacher Defends Job Against Budget Ax
District's only reading specialist makes spirited statement against proposed budget cut.
The article has been updated to include a comment from Board President Beth Daugherty. A South Orange - Maplewood School District employee whose position is likely to be cut if the Board of Education votes to approve the administration's proposed 2013-14 budget spoke out against the move at Monday night's BOE meeting. Elimination of the district's two elementary curriculum specialists (one each for reading and math), is part of a package of reductions being proposed by the administration in an effort to close a $2.8 million budget gap. Elementary Reading Specialist Donna Grohman read from a written statement deploring the cuts, to the enthusiastic response of several district teachers in the audience. "At a time when teachers have more …
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Carolyn Maynard-Parisi
4:19 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Ken and CJV: it is correct that this individual teacher will most likely be reassigned back to a classroom teaching position, as will the other specialist. What Mrs. Grohman was speaking against was the elimination of the positions themselves. more ›