AUSD Board Approves Massive Teacher Pay Cuts at Meeting Last Night

AUSD Board Approves Massive Teacher Pay Cuts at Meeting Last Night

Teachers facing pay cuts shout at board members in Alpine  *Article courtesy of 10news.com ALPINE, Calif. – Teachers shouted at school board members in Alpine during a heated meeting Tuesday after learning their salaries and benefits would be taking massive cuts starting in February of 2014. “Let us speak! Let us speak! Let us speak!” the packed crowd chanted from the elementary school gymnasium. Ninety-one teachers will be looking at an average cut of about 30 percent. “If we had the money to give the teachers, we would give it,” said Alpine Union School District Superintendent Tom Pellegrino. “And we…