The board voted Tuesday morning to allow districts to fall short of the number of days the state requires educators to work each year. Gov. Sonny Perdue called last week for the state’s 128,000 public school teachers to take three unpaid furlough days by the end of the calendar year.
The school districts are not required to enact the furloughs, but the state is cutting the sum of those days’ salaries from the districts’ funding. Most of the state’s 180 school districts are expected to go along with the furloughs.
Two of the largest districts — Cobb and DeKalb counties — are finding other ways to make up the funding cut rather than furlough teachers.
Sonny is just going to stiff the counties, the counties will just raise school taxes.