School Officers' Union Pushes For "Fair Share" Of Fed Funds
Wednesday, August 25, 2010(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The Council of School Officers (CSO) is urging Mayor Adrian
Fenty and DC Public Schools (DCPS) Chancellor Michelle Rhee to recognize the
critically important jobs filled by many of its members who work as assistant
principals, school psychologists, social workers, speech therapists, special
education coordinators and other service providers. Despite their significant
role in day-to-day student success and achievement, “DCPS has inexplicably
decided to freeze out these individuals from a fair share of the millions of
federal dollars that have been specifically approved to fairly compensate
education professionals,” CSO said in a letter to Fenty and Rhee last week.
The union is calling on Fenty and Rhee to “fully explain and document the
types of funds being used by DCPS to compensate employees and where that money
is being spent.”