3/29/13 - After entering deficit this year, the Pinckney Community Schools Board of Education has approved a contract with the local teachers union that will save the district millions. The Department of Education says Pinckney went from a surplus district to a deficit district this year, and Superintendent Dan Danosky says that deficit will be about $2 million at the end of June. If nothing had changed the deficit would have been $5 million by the end of the next school year, but Danosky says the new teacher contract has the potential to negate that increase. He tells WHMI the teachers made significant concessions in the contract, which was approved before the stateâs new right-to-work laws took effect on Thursday. Those concessions include taking a 3.5% pay cut, eliminating longevity, suspending pay steps, and increased health insurance deductibles and copays. Danosky says the district can still reduce the projected deficit further with other cuts, and that the contracts for the districtâs other bargaining groups have yet to be negotiated. (TD)
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