PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – As the superintendent of Portland Public Schools lays out plans to deal with a $14 million budget deficit, the local teachers’ union claims to be left in the dark.
At a Tuesday morning press conference, Dr. Kimberlee Armstrong said she is among those taking temporary furlough days to help deal with the deficit. She also said cuts could be necessary next year, depending on how many unions agree to temporary furlough days now.
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“Every human in our district does work that impacts classrooms. We just can’t afford to employ the number of people that we have employed before,” Armstrong said. “So now we are in this uncomfortable situation where we need to be responsive to our budget, and that means we need to do some things differently. We need to be a little tighter in the way in which we fund our programs, in the ways in which we staff here at Central Office, as well as in our schools”…