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  • Sign of the Times: Leaders of Las Vegas teachers union cash in while members await layoffs

    05/05/2012 4:02:32 PM PDT · by rhema · 5 replies
    Your raise or your job. That’s the choice facing members of the Clark County Education Association (CCEA), the union that represents teachers in Nevada’s Clark County School District (CCSD). The district is facing a $78 million deficit for the 2011-13 budget cycle, and needs to freeze teachers’ pay in order to avoid laying off 1,000 teachers by April. While most people would choose their job over a pay raise—as CCSD support staff and administrators have done—CCEA members have refused. An arbitrator will soon decide whether all teachers will take a pay freeze, or if some members will get paid raises...