School board disallows double dipping
Posted by BrianJust one step towards actual reform…
Related content:In the end, it didn’t matter how many e-mails were sent or how many bodies packed the downtown Montgomery auditorium Thursday to urge the state school board not to pass new policies for two-year college system employees.
A majority had already decided to end “double dipping” in the two-year college system as well as a more restrictive flextime policy that would force 13 legislators to choose between their system jobs and duties in the House and Senate.
Officials with the Alabama Education Association, the teacher’s union that bitterly opposed the changes, spearheaded a massive e-mail and phone campaign in hopes of persuading the nine-member board to hold off on Thursday’s action.
But board members including Democrat Mary Jane Caylor of Huntsville said their minds were made up long before they sat down behind the massive wooden desks and rose their right hands to vote.
“I inherently believe in what we’re doing,” Caylor said.
The so-called “double dipping” policy bars two-year college system employees from serving in the Legislature or holding any other elected state posts, but it is likely to be challenged.
It was approved on a 6-1 vote and the revised flextime policy passed on a 5-1 vote.
August 24th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Those who feel a debt of gratitude to the board members who voted for this ban may want to go to http://www.alsde.edu/html/boe1.asp?menu=boe and click on the members’ names under their photos and thank them.