NEWARK– Concerns about teachers leaving Worcester County Public Schools for better pay elsewhere dominated a budget hearing this week.
On Tuesday, the Worcester County Board of Education hosted a public budget input session. Numerous speakers expressed their worries that teachers would begin to leave Worcester County if their pay wasn’t increased.
“They feel unappreciated and undervalued,” said Beth Shockley-Lynch, president of the Worcester County Teachers Association. “They are facing the challenge of remaining in Worcester County, a place they love and have been dedicated to, or leaving to go to one of our neighbors because the compensation is significantly above ours.”
As it does each December, the school system hosted a public input session in preparation for development of the coming year’s budget. Chief Financial Officer Vince Tolbert provided an overview of the current budget in advance of the hearing.
He said the school system had a $125 million budget primarily funded by county government. He noted that the school system did have a $1.5 million surplus but said it was considered a best practice to end the year with a surplus because officials could never know exactly what expenditures would be.
Too bad our highly-educated superiors have been infected with their own COMMON CORE MATH which could possibly be the cause of students’ failures on their math testing. The MD Board of Education has just doubled down on imposing their BLUEPRINT for bankrupting the Counties in their quest for “equity”.
Wicomico is spending money like crazy at that airport. Money that has been taken from greater priorities like school and road construction, BOE Maintenance of Effort. The impact of the Revenue Cap (promoted by John Palmer himself and his cohorts at VOICE) has finally caught up with the County being able to maintain basic infrastructure and maintenance while still paying a livable wage to County employees.
you are free to either change jobs or change location! nobody is holding a gun to your head! I think I pay more then enough in taxes now, and to tell the truth these local governments and school systems are a river of sewage!
So go cry me a river!
Oh waaaaaaa! Teachers are making 75k a year, pension and full benefits while the average income of everyone else is like 43k. Cry me a river!
all while working maybe 8 mos a year! piss off losers!