Posted on 06/07/2012 11:48:16 AM PDT by ColdOne
PHILADELPHIA – EAGnews.org recently submitted an open records request to the Philadelphia school district, and it yielded a bonanza of juicy details about how the school system is spending taxpayer dollars.
While most of the items were contained in our recent report, “Sucking the Life Out of America’s Public Schools: The Expense of Teachers Union Contracts,” a few of the district’s expenditures deserve more attention.
For example, the roughly 16,000 members of the local teachers union--the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers--claimed a total of 3,122 days off for “jury duty.”
Jury duty typically lasts between two and five days. If the average “PFT” juror served five days, that means 624 union members (or 4 percent) were selected for duty during the 2010-11 school year. In a city with 1.5 million people, that seems like an unusually high number.
Additionally, PFT members are paid extra for jury duty--on top of base pay--according to another document obtained from the district.
Barbara Jo Bess Pashak, listed as a teacher at University City High School, is the third-highest paid member of the PFT. Her base salary was listed as $90,146.53 for the 2010-11 school year. But Pashak was able to supplement her base pay by a considerable amount. Her total compensation for 2010-2011 was an incredible $130,657.76--including $382.25 for jury duty--according to school records.
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so claiming jury duty when you want to take a few days off is more profitable for the teacher than calling in with a 5 day bug? Hmm, sounds like the Buffalo teacher Botox type of benefit...
so claiming jury duty when you want to take a few days off is more profitable for the teacher than calling in with a 5 day bug? Hmm, sounds like the Buffalo teacher Botox type of benefit...
“Her total compensation for 2010-2011 was an incredible $130,657.76”
Not a paid wage for 9 months of work.
The Philly version of NYC’s UFT gets its teachers extra pay for jury duty?? In NYC and NYS you get the days, no more. In fact if any employer pays you for jury service the state denies any payment on its part. However if I’m called for duty in the summer or during a break, I get paid by the state. But extra pay?/ I’d sure like to see the rest of the PFT’s contract. maybe I taught in the wrong town.
That might expain all of the felon’s roaming free in Philly...
Damn, sounds like old Barbara Jo got that supplementing thing down pat!
Wonder if she teaches classes on how to do that?
The graduation rate in Philadelphia is 51%, lowest in the state of Pennsylvania ... must be Bush’s fault.
The city, county and state paid me $6 a day and the Feds
$40 for jury duty. I lost over $500 a day for being a good citizen.
Here, you have to give your principal your jury summons post card. The article didn’t say if PA teachers have to or not as it just threw out the accusation with no proof. I would think that teachers have more stable jobs, are more likely to be home owners and are more likely to be registered voters. All that makes their chance of being called higher than a burger flipper at McDonald’s. The burger flipper is likely renting so is moving more often meaning the notification is likely to be sent to the wrong address and he’s more likely to ignore a summons since his job isn’t as secure.
“Not a paid wage for 9 months of work.”
Work that ends at 2:30.
teachers start out low in salary, but they range up very quickly...their cries of “poor me” are just arrogance because they think we’re just stupid out here and just accept their constant diatribe....
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