Listen to Jim Livingston, president of the Prince William Education Association. Jim knows that Prince William County has been operating on the cheap for years. He knows that he and his colleagues have not received competitive compensation for years. Jim also knows that class size counts. These issues must be addressed this year. Will the advertised tax rate suffice in fixing PWCS’s operating on the cheap problem? No. Not even close but it is a start.
Prince William Education Association has been sounding the alarm about salaries and class size for quite some time. This is not a new phenomena and the local association has been vigilant about asking for these measures to be corrected. Yet, if one glances about the blogosphere, one would think that a certain blog from Gainesville discovered the problem, all by their lonesome. Teachers have been insulted and accused of being led around by the school board. Nothing could be further from the truth.
