Re: Star columnist Tim Steller: TUSD broke promises with Prop. 123 spending. The superintendent and a school board member could not have been clearer: They intended on spending the district’s Proposition 123 money on paying teachers.
Brianna Dawn: I saw this coming a mile away, and that is why I didn’t vote for Prop. 123. I knew districts would spend the money the way they saw fit (as there were no stringent stipulations attached to the proposition).
Jonathan Urbalejo: Prop. 123 was a lie from day one, and the teachers are still woefully underpaid.
David Moore: Both parties sold out public education. Many Dems who claimed to be against Prop. 123 actually supported it.
Kathleen Platt: It wasn’t TUSD as much as the governor and his cronies doing a bait and switch.
Rachael Sedgwick: The TUSD School Board is ultimately responsible, for it is up to a school board to keep its superintendent in check. The TUSD School Board must supervise the superintendent, learn about and vote for policies that actually work for students and teachers, and stop trying to mask the truth at the behest of overblown egos.
Mike Robinette: TUSD voters would be very wise to finally wake up and vote out Kristel Foster and Cam Juarez. If they don’t do right by the children and vote these folks out, they should expect the bleeding out of TUSD to continue.
Carol Ann Karpen: TUSD teachers received a $700 raise this year, and not based on Prop. 123 monies. New hires received a $1,500 raise; only new teachers received this raise. Keep investigating, please.
Dan R. Anderson: “But when I spoke to Sanchez, he said the timing was deliberate, as negotiations with the Tucson Education Association and other unions had been going on for some time.” First of all the agreement with TEA was not a negotiation, it was a diktat because teachers’ unions have been completely stripped of all power by the state Legislature. In fact it isn’t even really a union; that’s why they call it an association. For him to claim that there were “negotiations” is disingenuous. It’s like saying that a lion is negotiating with an antelope on whether it wants to be his lunch.
