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Tue Mar-15-11 06:01 PM
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| OR District cuts all classroom assistants to 30 hrs: and wants $400 for benefits |
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Edited on Tue Mar-15-11 06:08 PM by Snoutport
David Douglas School District in Portland just cut their classroom assistants to 30 hours (@$10 an hour). Before taxes that is $1200 a month but the district is asking $400 of it back to cover their health insurance.
$1200-30% taxes = $840 - 400= $440. (a weekly earning of $110)
These workers are the life's blood of special education and elementary school. Is this an attempt to gut the teacher's assistants union?
If you feel like making a call... Don Grotting, Superintendent, 503-261-8201
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| YellowRubberDuckie
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Tue Mar-15-11 06:17 PM
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| 1. Is that even minimum wage? |
| rucky
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Tue Mar-15-11 06:18 PM
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| 2. The insurance is taken out before taxes. |
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Tue Mar-15-11 06:22 PM
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| 3. They were crying and I felt so bad for them.... |
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But our legislature is voting on a 5 bills that will gut the special ed system here in the state. 25% cut next year, to 50% the year after. Special ed employs most of the educational assitants--so, this pretty much takes out the educational assistants union.
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Tue Mar-15-11 06:23 PM
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| 4. Thanks for posting this... |
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I've been looking at different areas to move to and now I can officially check this district off the list. My kid is in a SLC and we all know how much those classrooms depend on TAs. That's just terrible.
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Tue Mar-15-11 06:47 PM
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| 6. I called the mayors office today and said just what you said! |
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People will hear about this and not want to come to Portland because of the bad name this district is giving the whole city!
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Tue Mar-15-11 07:13 PM
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| 8. This is the area of Portland where I could afford to rent... |
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it's a shame, because I do love Portland.
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Tue Mar-15-11 06:26 PM
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Tue Mar-15-11 07:50 PM
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Tue Mar-15-11 06:54 PM
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such is the amount our society thinks is appropriate for taking care of our children.
the devil would be proud of us.
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Tue Mar-15-11 07:36 PM
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| 9. i fear it is to undo the assistants union! |
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Wed Mar-16-11 09:48 AM
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| 11. The irony is that the $400 buy-in... |
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puts them below minimum wage and the poverty level - qualifying them for whatever state benefits may be left for them, but they're already paying for.
They are putting these people in an impossible position.
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Thu Mar-17-11 12:42 AM
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| 12. yes...one of them has a partner who just survived cancer |
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they are trapped or they lose their insurance.
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