By Jamie Burch
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Published: Tue, May 06, 2008 - 12:46 pm
The Mobile County School Board approved Superintendent Roy Nichols' plan for budget cuts Monday night. It includes 492 employees who will have to look for new jobs.News 5 has obtained a copy of the 75-page document that lists the names of employees who will receive a pink slip.
But Nancy Pierce, a spokesperson for Mobile County Public Schools, says not everyone on the list will lose their job. Below is a breakdown of the job cuts provided by the school district.
Non-Renewal of Certified Personnel Assigned to Central Administration
-- Number of Employees Affected: 3
Part of the RIF (Reduction in Force in Central Administration)
There are certified teachers who have left the classroom for positions in central administration that are related to teaching and administrative responsibilities. These three employees were hired from other school systems. Because of the short time that they have had in their positions in Mobile’s Central Administration (three or less academic years), they are not tenured in the System and not tenured in central office position they are holding. Their contracts are non-renewed. They will have to find jobs elsewhere or they may apply for any future advertised vacancy.
Non-Renewal of Assistant Principals
– Number of Employees Affected: 38
(All will be returned to jobs as classroom teachers)
The State only pays for a specific number of assistant principals for all of the schools in Mobile County. In the past, using locally generated tax funds, the System has hired more assistant principals than what the State pays for. To save local funds, the decision was made to reduce by 26 the number of locally funded assistant principal positions. The 38 assistant principals who will be returning to the classroom did not achieve tenure (three or less academic years) as assistant principals.
Non-Renewal of Administrative Interns
– Number of Employees Affected: 44
(All will be returned to jobs as classroom teachers)
The System has provided an opportunity for some teachers who have finished their certification in school administration to spend a year as an administrative intern. At the end of that one year, they can apply for administrative vacancies for the subsequent year. If they are not selected or if there are no vacancies, they return to their previous positions as classroom teachers. All 44 will become classroom teachers next year since there are no administrative vacancies.
Non-Renewal of Non-Tenured Teachers
– Number of Employees Affected: 305
(It is estimated that most of these teachers will be re-hired to fill vacancies created by teachers who are retiring or are otherwise leaving the system)
In order to create vacancies for tenured teachers who are having to be transferred to a different school for next year or for those tenured teachers being returned to the classroom from assistant principal, administrative intern, or Central Administrative certified positions, the System must “pink slip” many of its first and second year teachers. After all of the tenured teachers have been assigned because of the shuffle, these experienced first and second year teachers will be considered for re-hire.
Non-Renewal of Out-of-Field Teachers
– Number of Employees Affected: 313
(It is estimated that most of these teachers will be rehired in their same positions as this year since their teaching is in the areas of math, science and special education.)
Each year the System is able to hire individuals with college degrees and to allow them to begin teaching while they simultaneously complete additional college work required for their teaching certification. If these employees do not complete the requirements or do not show progress toward achieving certification, then they cannot continue their employment for the subsequent year. The Alabama teacher employment law requires that a teacher who is not going to be re-hired for the following school year must be notified before the end of the current school year. This list then simply ensures that we have notified these teachers that they will not be rehired if they are not on track for completing the work required for teacher certification.
Proposed Mandatory Transfer of Certified Personnel Assigned to Central Admnistration
– Number of Employees Affected: 20
(All of these tenured employees will be assigned to different positions but with reduced salaries)
Part of the RIF (Reduction in Force) for Central Administration. These employees are all tenured certified teachers assigned to Central Administration who will be returning to their last tenured position, generally as classroom teachers or at a lesser paying central office position. Because they are tenured, all will continued to be employed in some capacity but with reduced salary.
Mandatory Transfer of Assistant Principals
– Number of Employees Affected: 17
(All of these tenured employees will continue to be employed as assistant principals but in different schools)
Because the System will no longer continue to use local funds to pay the salaries of some of the assistant principals, some schools will lose assistant principal positions or allocations. Thus, tenured assistant principals will need to be moved to another school.
Mandatory Transfer of Certified Personnel – Teachers
– Number of Employees Affected: 163
(All of these tenured teachers will continue to be employed as teachers but in different schools next year)
Some individual schools will have less teachers next year because of lower enrollment or the System’s decision not to use local funds to pay the salaries of teachers. As a result of the loss of teaching units in a school, the school may be overstaffed. The non-tenured teachers will be non-renewed, but the tenured teachers will be transferred to another school where there are vacancies.
Mandatory Transfer of Non-Probationary (or Tenured) Classified Employees in Central Administration
-- Number of Employees Affected: 6
(All of these non-probationary employees will continue as employees because of their tenure but in different work locations and some will receive less salary because of their new positions)
Part of the RIF in Central Administration. Decisions were made to reduce the size of the staffing in central administrative offices. Tenured employees will be moved to other positions in the System.
Mandatory Transfer of Non-Probationary (or Tenured) Classified Employees Assigned to Schools
Number of Employees Affected: 194
(All of these employees will continue as employees but in different work locations because of their tenure status.)
Because support staff allocations (number of support staff) at some schools have been reduced, it is necessary for the System to transfer the tenured employees to different school site work locations.
Termination of Probationary Classified Employees Central Administration
- Number of Employees Affected: 31
(All of these non-tenured classified employees will have to find jobs elsewhere or apply for any future vacancies that may occur in the System)
Part of the RIF in Central Administration. Because these employees have not completed at least 36 months of employment in a classified position and because their current positions have been cut (not funded in the next budget year), they will be terminated. They will have an opportunity to apply for advertised vacancies with the Board as the vacancies occur but there is no guarantee of future employment.
Termination of Probationary Classified Employees Assigned to Schools
– Number of Employees Affected: 477
(Many of these employees will be re-hired to fill existing vacancies in the school and many will have to find jobs elsewhere)
Because the decision was made to reduce the amount of local funds used to hire support employees, those employees who have worked less than 36 months will be pink-slipped, but many of them will be eligible for re-hire as vacancies occur.
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If I were a teacher and my last day would be the 23rd. I don’t think I would wait. I WOULD WALK OUT. This is crazy. The government should step in and take a gooood look at these school board members and thier practices. Quick