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"Captain Compassion" |
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14 Sep 2005 02:26:04 PM |
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No pay for New Orleans teachers |
No pay for New Orleans teachers 2 hours, 12 minutes ago
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - New Orleans teachers will not get
paid for periods after Hurricane Katrina because there is almost no
money left in the city's strapped school system, an executive of the
outside firm that runs the schools said on Wednesday.
But a team of experts was set to descend on the city on Wednesday to
find schools that can be reopened as soon as possible, providing the
system gets emergency funding from the government to operate.
The paycheck issued this week to teachers is for the last pay period
before the storm hit, said Bill Roberti, a director with the
restructuring firm of Alvarez & Marsal, which runs the school system.
"This is the last payroll we will be able to issue for the time
being," Roberti said in a briefing. "We were not able to move forward
with the $50 million financing we were pursuing to keep the district
afloat. We are very low on cash at this time."
The 7,000-employee, 116-school system was already in dire financial
shape before Katrina hit, which is why the firm was pursuing the $50
million finance package.
A total of $13 million in payroll is available at Western Union
branches across the country for teachers to pick up, Roberti said.
The state's schools superintendent said Tuesday he will ask Congress
for $2.4 billion in aid for teacher benefits and salaries, and Alvarez
& Marsal sent a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush as well,
asking for help.
Sajan George, another managing director at Alvarez & Marsal, said the
destruction Katrina caused was, in its own way, an opportunity to
renew the beleaguered system.
"The rebuilding will afford a number of opportunities in not only
rebuilding the physical environment but the educational environment
students work in," he said. "The faster we can get back to reopening
the school system the faster we can rebuild a world-class city."
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| Title: Re: No pay for New Orleans teachers |
14 Sep 2005 06:58:00 PM |
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Why SHOULD New Orleans teachers be paid now? After all, the schools
there aren't open, are they - so they don't teach, do they? Why should
they get paid for not teaching in closed schools with no students -
especially when other teachers are being paid to teach those same kids
in faraway cities now?
No $4 to park! No $6 admission!
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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| Title: Re: No pay for New Orleans teachers |
14 Sep 2005 10:03:05 PM |
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On 14 Sep 2005 16:58:00 -0700, "editor@netpath.net"
<editor@netpath.net> wrote:
Why SHOULD New Orleans teachers be paid now? After all, the schools
there aren't open, are they - so they don't teach, do they? Why should
they get paid for not teaching in closed schools with no students -
especially when other teachers are being paid to teach those same kids
in faraway cities now?
Good point. The real question is how was the Mayor going to pay the
teachers if the storm didn't hit?
No $4 to park! No $6 admission!
http://stores.ebay.com/INTERNET-GUN-SHOW
--
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." -- John Updike
"Long term commitment in relationships is only necessary because it takes
so damn long to raise children. Marriage may well be some kind of trick
to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
res0mp8t@NOSPAMverizon.net
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: No pay for New Orleans teachers |
14 Sep 2005 10:44:53 PM |
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Capt. Compassion quoted me:
Why SHOULD New Orleans teachers be paid now? After all, the schools
there aren't open, are they - so they don't teach, do they? Why should
they get paid for not teaching in closed schools with no students -
especially when other teachers are being paid to teach those same kids
in faraway cities now?
and replied:
Good point. The real question is how was the Mayor going to pay the
teachers if the storm didn't hit?
You're asking the "how"; I'm asking the "why?" Both are very good
and relevant questions. Yours - the "how" - just makes irrefutable
that New Orleans was one failed city BEFORE the hurricane ever hit it,
and that its problems really can't be blamed on the hurricane or Bush.
I have a prediction - that New Orleans is through. While the small
jazz clubs may come back after rebuilding, the big places' owners will
take their disaster-relief and insurance checks and either retire rich
or rebuild elsewhere. That "elsewhere" would be Mississippi - where
the people don't go anarchic from a hurricane, where state and local
government isn't dysfunctional, and (importantly) where gambling on
moored "boat" piers is legal. Mississippi is the future; New Orleans
is the past.
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