Millinocket school head gets no-confidence vote
Bangor Daily News, December 12, 2007
(excerpt) One Millinocket Education Association member said Tuesday he considered Alberts’ one-year contract extension, awarded at a Union 113-Millinocket School committee meeting last week, "a slap in the face" because it occurred despite the letters.
According to the Nov. 13 letter, at least four employees were not paid the previous week; some employees wait several pay periods for payment; budgets are frozen, causing some teachers to buy with their own funds needed supplies and lodging at professional development activities.
Many substitute teachers and vendors remain unpaid; at one point in late October, Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. threatened to shut off power to the high school and middle school for nonpayment; the town’s three schools continue to receive third and fourth overdue billing notices; and, five months into the fiscal year, the school system still lacks a true reckoning of income and expenditures, the letter states.
Staff also are assigned tasks outside job descriptions, special education assistants monitor regular study halls when they should be with special education students, and teachers are implementing standards-based grading even as the new system is being designed, making multiple reassessments necessary.
(excerpt) One Millinocket Education Association member said Tuesday he considered Alberts’ one-year contract extension, awarded at a Union 113-Millinocket School committee meeting last week, "a slap in the face" because it occurred despite the letters.
According to the Nov. 13 letter, at least four employees were not paid the previous week; some employees wait several pay periods for payment; budgets are frozen, causing some teachers to buy with their own funds needed supplies and lodging at professional development activities.
Many substitute teachers and vendors remain unpaid; at one point in late October, Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. threatened to shut off power to the high school and middle school for nonpayment; the town’s three schools continue to receive third and fourth overdue billing notices; and, five months into the fiscal year, the school system still lacks a true reckoning of income and expenditures, the letter states.
Staff also are assigned tasks outside job descriptions, special education assistants monitor regular study halls when they should be with special education students, and teachers are implementing standards-based grading even as the new system is being designed, making multiple reassessments necessary.
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