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A group of Natomas teachers, classified employees, parents and others plan a march to the Natomas Unified School District board meeting tomorrow to protest spending practices.
“It’s wrong to be spending $88,0000 on outside consultants, buying large-screen monitors for the board room, and granting pay raises to administrators when we’ve just emerged from a fiscal crisis,” Natomas Teachers’ Association president Kristen Rocha said.
THE NATOMAS UNIFIED SCHOOL BOARD MEETING IS 5:45 P.M. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 AT INDERKUM HIGH SCHOOL, 2500 NEW MARKET DRIVE. OPEN SESSION IS SCHEDULED FOR 7 P.M.
Union representatives said the school district’s spending practices are questionable in light of increased class sizes, cuts to school programs and layoffs. The district narrowly avoided a state take over of its finances earlier this year.
“The students, the teachers the classified staff and the community in Natomas deserve better, and that’s what we are going to be telling the board,” said Mike Sanders, president of the California School Employees Association No. 745.
Representatives from other teacher and classified employee union chapters, the CSEA field office and the California Teachers’ Association regional office, both located in Sacramento, are also expected to march from Inderkum High School on New Market Drive to Via Ingolgia then along Del Paso Road to Natomas Boulevard and back to the high school.
“My main goal is to get the conversation started so we can pressure the board to act responsibly and get the community to understand the role the board has in shaping the future,” Rocha said.
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