Dr. Bradley Landis

HARRISBURG PA – Although 29 percent of school districts statewide have enacted a pay freeze for some employees, only 8.6 percent of them – including the Pottsgrove School District -  have frozen pay during 2011-2012 for all teachers, administrators and other staffers, according to statistics from the Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA).

The PSBA, a lobbying organization representing district boards of school directors, keeps an unofficial record of pay freeze participation that was the subject Thursday (June 30, 2011) of a report in The Pennsylvania Independent online news service.

Currently, 154 districts still are negotiating teacher contracts with their teachers’ unions, and could not enact a pay freeze, PSBA spokesman Steve Robinson told The Independent. Enacting a pay freeze across all of Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts could save $400 million in a single year, as well as 4,000 jobs, according to the Corbett administration.

Superintendent Dr. Bradley Landis was among those quoted by The Independent in discussing Pottsgrove’s pay freeze. “It was “fortunate that everyone came together,” he said.

• Read a story by reporter Yasmin Tadjdeh, titled “Many schools have yet to enact pay freeze despite budget cuts” and published Thursday by The Independent, here.

Related (to the Pottsgrove School District 2011-2012 budget):

• Unlike Pottsgrove, Most Districts (So Far) Avoid Freeze
• PA Legislators Work To Reform Schools’ Taxing Abilities
• Pottsgrove Task Force, A Good Idea Copied, Copied Again
• Of 7 Final Budget Choices, Pottsgrove Landed In Middle
• Pottsgrove OKs Final Budget: 1.8% Tax Hike, About $74
• ‘Cyber School, Here We Come,’ Pottsgrove Proclaims
• Budget-Motivated Pottsgrove Admin Changes Approved
• Plan To Further Cut Pottsgrove Tax Hike Dies In Tie
• Pottsgrove Cuts Admin Job Among Leadership Changes
• Pottsgrove Plans For Re-Assignments A Budget-Saver?
• Teamsters Agree, Too, On Wage Freeze For Pottsgrove
• Does Pottsgrove Have An Administrative Cut-In-Waiting?
• Red And Yellow Items Left On Pottsgrove Budget Table
• Pottsgrove OKs 2.8% Tax Hike In Tentative Budget
• Local School Boards Face Both Cuts And Policy Changes
• Pottsgrove Chinese Language Students Face Cuts Again
• Pottsgrove Task Force Didn’t Shelve Pay-To-Play Plan
• Committee: Charter School May Save Pottsgrove $70K
• Pottsgrove Paying $28K Next Year For MCIU Support
• Secretary Says Schools Must Find Funds Themselves
• College Students Protest Proposed Ed Budget Cuts
• Pay Freeze Endorsed As Pottsgrove Labor Talks Start
• Pottsgrove High Protesters Exercise Art Of Compromise
• Pottsgrove’s Landis Distributes State Fund Comparison
• Pottsgrove Budget Deficit Balloons With Gov’s Proposal
• MCIU Budgets On Pottsgrove Schools Agenda Tonight
• PA House OKs ‘Cut And Replace’ On Education Funding
• Idea: Other Local Schools Consider Extracurricular Fees
• Idea: Pottsgrove Might Prosper With Own Charter School
• Pooling Resources Could Save Pottsgrove On Special Ed
• Like Pottsgrove Task Force, Outsiders Weigh Cost Vs. Value
• Task Force Crowd Packs Into Pottsgrove For First Session
• School Budget Task Force Kicks Off Its Work Tonight
• Does Western PA School Tax Uprising Foretell Mood Here?
• Pottsgrove Schools Budget Short Another $400,000
• Pottsgrove, As Expected, Adopts Budget First Draft
• Pottsgrove Tentative Budget Adoption Expected
• Weather Postpones Pottsgrove Budget Meeting
• Still Time In Pottsgrove For Budget Volunteers To Enlist
• Challenge To Pottsgrove Budget Advisers: 10 Percent
• Best Guesses, Deficit Launch Pottsgrove Budget Season
• Senate Education Chair Preps For Voucher, Choice Battle
• School Board Questions Pottsgrove Recreation Costs
• Pension Reform Vote Could Benefit Pottsgrove, Others
• Notebook Worthy: News Reporters Made News Tuesday
• Pottsgrove Isn’t Waiting In Search For Budget Volunteers
• If You’ve Got A Budget Idea, Pottsgrove Says It’ll Listen
• Pottsgrove Seeks More Public Input On District Budget