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Orange County, CA November 2, 2010 Election
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RETURN STOLEN TEACHING DAYS

By John Briscoe

Candidate for Board Member; Ocean View School District

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State Minimum Teaching is NOT Enough WE CAN DO BETTER!

WE CAN DO BETTER

The single biggest problem with our Ocean View School District of Orange County is our failure to maintain (or enlarge) our teaching program in the communities of Westminster, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach and Seal Beach that are included in our boundaries. We have stolen priceless teaching minutes from our children and used the money saved to pay raises to teachers. The Board voted 4 to 1 in favor of so-called "furlough days" where teachers are paid more to work less in these difficult economic times. Yes, OVSD teachers were given a raise this year! And that raise was paid for by students being deprived of 8 teaching days in 2010 alone. This equals over ONE QUARTER OF A YEAR of learning lost & gone forever in the career of an OVSD student. Shame on us! We should be working to INCREASE teaching time, not voting four to one against me to cut whole weeks of learning out of our school year. We must do better.

WE CAN DO BETTER

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