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March 16, 2021 7:10 PM
Multiple California public schools and teachers unions discussed using federal and state COVID-19 relief funding to pay for teacher bonuses.
At least two school districts in California may give teachers thousands of dollars of aid intended to safely reopen schools as bonuses, according to messages uncovered by the group Reopen California Schools and reported by the
Daily Mail. One union even said teachers could use the money for a trip to Hawaii.
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The Clovis Unified School District s Employee Compensation Committee last week discussed giving teachers $6,000 bonuses using money allocated by Assembly Bill 86 to support school reopening efforts.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom and his Aunt Nancy Pelosi always like to use the phrase, “for the children” when seeking more money for some school program that usually has less to do with the children and more to do with enriching the powerful teacher’s unions in the state. Now that they both have gotten what they wanted, and the 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package has been signed, school districts are making no pretenses about who the money will be for.
@GavinNewsom@UTLAnow So you mean they don t care about the kids? It s just about the Benjamin s ?https://t.co/Z9VmA3cd0o
REVEALED: California schools are using COVID relief for teacher bonuses and a union joked they should use handouts for a trip to HAWAII - even though classrooms are still closed
The memos, shared online by the group Reopen California Schools, appear to show that school districts have been using COVID relief money on bonuses
An Employee Compensation Committee at the Clovis Unified School District met on Wednesday to discuss how the relief funds would be used
Committee members discussed using funds from the state s recent AB-86 bill to provide one-time bonuses of up to $6,000 bonuses
The AB-86 bill provided appropriated $4.6 billion in state funds for schools to reopen and meet public health requirements and allows for paying salaries
Multiple California school districts have discussed using state and federal COVID relief money to hand out bonuses for teachers and staff, with one district's union even reportedly proposing the money be used for a trip to Hawaii.