In making its most recent healthcare proposal, Miami-Dade County Public Schools is saying that it does not care about its employees. MDCPS must immediately find money in wasted funds to pay for insurance.
If legitimate, this is an extremely short-sighted proposal. Support staff at the schools, including secretaries, custodians, cafeteria workers, and security guards, who often have to use food stamps to feed their families, will not be able to pay for increased health care costs.
All will find their already inadequate salary increases from last year reversed or driven into the red by this proposal.
Further, by cutting health care benefits, MDCPS will increase its costs due to absences by sick workers, in addition to the damage that it will cause its charges in the classroom due to those absences.
MDCPS must insist that everyone pay their fair share of education dollars by urging state legislators to adopt a more effective and equitable tax structure for the State of Florida.
Meantime, the School Board should find the money to insure its employees by cutting unnecessary programs.
Gandhi called education a moral imperative. The spiritual fiber of our county is at stake.
Otto Zequeira
We the undersigned believe that Miami-Dade County Public Schools' most recent healthcare proposal says to its employees that it does not care about them. MDCPS must immediately find money in wasted funds to pay for insurance.
If legitimate, this is an extremely short-sighted proposal. Support staff at the schools, including secretaries, custodians, cafeteria workers, and security guards, who often have to use food stamps to feed their families, will not be able to pay for increased health care costs.
All will find their already inadequate salary increases from last year reversed or driven into the red by this proposal.
Further, by cutting health care benefits, MDCPS will increase its costs due to absences by sick workers, in addition to the damage that it will cause its charges in the classroom due to those absences.
MDCPS must insist that everyone pay their fair share of education dollars by urging state legislators to adopt a more effective and equitable tax structure for the State of Florida.
Meantime, the School Board should find the money to insure its employees by cutting unnecessary programs.
Gandhi called education a moral imperative. The spiritual fiber of our county is at stake.
