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From the May 15, 2010 Idaho Falls Post-Register: “Teacher negotiations are the last piece of 
the budget puzzle in Rexburg, where trustees are trying to make about $3 million in cuts. Last week, teachers turned down the trustees’ proposal of 10.5 percent in pay cuts over three years … . Sherri Christensen, REA (Rexburg Education Association) president, said she understands board members’ caution but the situation is frustrating. ‘If we’re getting paid less, we will work less,” Christensen said. “Some of us really will have to go out and find another job.’” To broadcast to the world a potential pay cut will mean a work slowdown should be unthinkable in tough times when many people would be grateful to HAVE a job, even one where they had to take a temporary pay cut/Idaho Freedom Foundation. More here.
Question: What do you make of the announced stand by the Rexburg Education Association that teachers will respond to less pay by working less?
In Idaho news, downtown CDA’s profile keeps rising, but school budgets are falling.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/may/29/cda-office-building-will-feature-lake-view/
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/may/29/idaho-school-districts-declaring-emergencies/
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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