Vulnerable school district’s paraprofessionals demonstrate, plead case at board meeting
Over 1,000 school employees received ‘pink slips’:
By Citizen staff
“I work with 130 students a day; the school district pays me 62 cents per student, yet they want to lay me off, I care more than 62 cents for the student’s success,” read the sign of Carlyn Terry.
She was one of more than 80 paraprofessional demonstrators on the streets in front of the Elk Grove Unified District’s offices on Tuesday prior to the school board meeting.
Terry is from Harriet Eddy Middle School where she provides teacher instructional support for disadvantaged learning students. Also after school, on her free time at no charge to the district, she works with the honor society.
The paraprofessionals dominated the Tuesday evening board meeting with the demonstration, speakers before the school board, and a plea from Nancy Clifford, business agent for the AFSCME union representing the paraprofessionals.
In Terry’s paraprofessional class of 123 full time-positions, 46 full time-positions received pink slips.
This week more than 1,000 schoo
She was one of more than 80 paraprofessional demonstrators on the streets in front of the Elk Grove Unified District’s offices on Tuesday prior to the school board meeting.
Terry is from Harriet Eddy Middle School where she provides teacher instructional support for disadvantaged learning students. Also after school, on her free time at no charge to the district, she works with the honor society.
The paraprofessionals dominated the Tuesday evening board meeting with the demonstration, speakers before the school board, and a plea from Nancy Clifford, business agent for the AFSCME union representing the paraprofessionals.
In Terry’s paraprofessional class of 123 full time-positions, 46 full time-positions received pink slips.
This week more than 1,000 schoo