From AL.com:

A group of tearful and emotional school teachers from around Alabama, including Huntsville and Decatur, made a plea today for the Legislature to act quickly on the state’s education budget.

At a press conference arranged by the Senate Democratic Caucus, more than a dozen teachers told of their personal plight since receiving their pink slips.

Victoria Lemiux, who was an 11th- and 12th-grade teacher at Lee High School in Huntsville, said 20 of her students who graduated this year were on a school bus that fell off an Interstate 565 ramp on Nov. 20, 2006, killing four.

“I had the pleasure of watching them walk across the stage,” she said. “I received my pink slip before that monumental moment.”

…

Alison Lovell, who was an elementary teacher at Huntsville’s Rolling Hills Elementary School, said she got her second pink slip in two years.

But wait just a minute!  WAFF has a conflicting story:

The clock was ticking until the end of the school year and now that it’s here, were any let go?

No.

Huntsville City Schools spokesman Keith Ward says, “No pink slips.”

That’s for both Madison County and Huntsville City school systems.

Ward says each system was given a budget and a projection was based on the 3% cut the house passed.

So here we have some teachers going to Montgomery - almost certainly at the behest of the AEA - and giving sob stories during a publicity stunt, but their employer is refuting their claims.  The Huntsville City Schools’ spokesman flatly said that no pink slips were handed out.  At least two teachers in that system claimed to have been given pink slips.  Who is struggling with the truth here?

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