The Buffalo School District may have hired three dozen new gym teachers for this year but there's already a fight over their future.
Superintendent Kriner Cash says school district budgeting is "additive," that's simply adding more money to deal with a problem instead of looking at the overall spending plan. That's what he wants, using an old term, zero-based budgeting, to explain what he wants to do with district spending, especially when he gets a first rough draft of next year's spending, in a month.
BTF President Phil Rumore warns of gym cuts during a rally yesterday in front of City Hall.
"Not just because we're just going to have it for a year. But, I've got news for you. Just because it's here this year, we don't stick together. It could disappear next year," Rumore said.
An unusual alliance of the District Parent Coordinating Council and the Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization is working with the BTF to save the gym jobs and maybe add more to meet state standards for student exercise and the alliance is working ahead of the annual budget fight, with strong support among the board majority.
