The Board of Education in Wetzel County, Alabama, voted to cut the salaries of the district’s educators. In a 10-1 vote, the board decided to keep the district’s current budget. The board also approved a new employee contract.
Woot, woot, woot! Wetzel County is a small county in Alabama, so it’s no surprise that it doesn’t have much of a budget, which is why these changes have happened. However, it is also also a place where you can see the old-school Alabama education process at work. In the past, teachers were given a certain amount of money and given a certain number of days to teach a specific subject under a certain amount of hours.
The new board of education is the kind of place that lets the district spend money on things that it thinks will help it gain more foot traffic and generate more revenue. This is a good thing, because the district is spending a ton of money on a new gym and a new library, and the new employee contract seems to be an attempt to pay for it.
The district might not be the best teacher’s union in the world, but it’s certainly one of the more accountable ones. Of course, as you probably guessed from the name, it also lets the district spend money on things that it thinks will increase student achievement. What it didn’t seem to do is spend that money on things that teachers are already doing.
The district is paying for a new gym, but it’s not going to put a whole lot of money into the new school. The gym needs to be somewhere that it can play a tiny part in bringing people out of trouble. It’s not going to be easy to get someone out of it, but there’s no way around it.
I guess you can argue that the extra money the district has to spend on a gym is a sign that the district is doing something right but that doesnt excuse its spending it on something that’s less important.
The district’s budget is really going to depend on how much money they get for the gym and who the money actually goes to. The county government has already tried to find a way to cover the cost of the new gym by creating a new district office. Maybe a little of this is to cover the cost of building the new gym and the rest is to get the district out of the financial bind it’s in.
The school board spent $7 million on the new gym this year. That might not be much, but it’s still more than the district has spent on the new library and the new building for the library. The district needs more money to hire a new superintendent and the new gym is a start.
So the district needs more money to hire a new superintendent and the new gym is a start. So the district needs more money to hire a new superintendent and the new gym is a start.
The district needs more money to hire a new superintendent and the new gym is a start. So the district needs more money to hire a new superintendent and the new gym is a start.