“Value-Added” Teachers in Buffalo
The Buffalo school district may have laid off 44 teachers this year, but some of the ones who are left are much improved, thanks to almost $9 million in taxpayer-funded cosmetic surgery they received in accordance with a provision in the collective bargaining agreement.
“The only reason it’s still there is because the board hasn’t agreed to a new contract with us,” said Buffalo Teachers Federation president Phil Rumore. “If anybody is responsible for there still being a cosmetic surgery rider, the board is.”
Rumore also had this to say to WRGZ-TV:
Maybe we could find a way to hook up the Buffalo teachers and the Milwaukee teachers.
