Some Mobile Teachers Being Re-Hired

By Steve Alexander Reporter

But there are still concerns about no state education budget Some Mobile Teachers Being Re-Hired

Published: Tue, May 20, 2008 - 10:06 pm

Steve Alexander

Amid worries about the legislature not passing an education budget, Mobile School officials are managing to re-hire some laid off teachers.
Superintendent Roy Nichols said the teachers are mostly in hard-to-find subject areas.
Nichols said, "I had several pieces of paper cross my desk with lists of names of people who had been reassigned that had already been told they were going to be laid off. Mostly, at this point, its math and special ed teachers, but others will be coming back soon, too."
Jenny Parker is a math teacher at Davidson High School.
She said received a pink slip, but "the list of people that are going back into the classroom did not include any math teachers, or not many math teachers, so I feel fairly comfortable that I will be back at Davidson teaching next fall."
As for the Alabama State Legislature not approving an education budget, Nichols said that shouldn't have an effect on Mobile County.
The superintendent said he anticipated something like that might happen, and that he built in additional cuts.
But if there's proration, across the board state budget cuts, Nichols said, "You go back and you cut more deeply and, quite frankly, I'm not sure how to do that, we've cut so deeply now."