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Riverside County, CA | November 7, 2006 Election |
Three Important Questions: Labor Issues, Public Image and Cut ProgramsBy Vincent O'NealCandidate for Board Member; Temecula Valley Unified School District | |
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Labor issues, public image and art programs are addressed.1. Labor issues have dominated the district's time the past several years. Do you think TVUSD's teachers have been treated fairly? The teachers received a ten percent increase in pay for the current year as a result of contract negotiations after receiving nothing last year. While recieving this pay increase, the school site budgets have been cut, requiring teachers to pay more out of pocket for luxuries such as paper and other classroom supplies. During the year, the Board of Trustees received an 87.5% increase in their stipend. This increased the stipend from $400 per month to $750. Is this Fair? The District has reduced the number of Literacy aides in title one programs over the years; therefore, Literacy program teachers have less staff and more students to instruct. This reduces the amount of time and attention each student needing help will receive. Is this fair to the students and teachers? The PTA is required to pay to use their own school sites while sponsoring events to benefit the school. They also must pay nearly three times the overtime rate for a custodian during the events. PTAs throughout this District are working overtime to pay for the PE equipment, disaster supplies, art programs and the increasing costs of field trips. Is it Fair that they should have to spend a large portion of the money they raise to pay to use the facilities? It seems to me that the District has fairly spread around the unfairness. 2. The district's public image has taken a battering in recent years. How would you work to improve it? Honesty goes along way in improving public image. Everyone realizes that mistakes will be made. The integrity lies in admitting them and not hiding them. Public image improvement comes when the same mistakes are not made over and over. It also comes when the lines of communication are open. Silence is, fairly or unfairly, equated to guilt. It looks as if something is being covered up when public explanations are not given by elected officials for their actions. Here are a ways I would work to improve public image:
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