Thursday and Friday teachers of the state of Colorado intend to go on strike and demand higher wages and increase funding for schools. At the same time, some state legislators are working to strike did not go unpunished, introducing a bill that would jail for the protest.
The bill SB18-264, if it will, will allow school districts to ban teachers ‘ strikes in the district court. Violation of the prohibition would «constitute contempt of court», and teachers will face not only fines, but also 6 months in prison.
The bill will also allow the leadership of school districts to fire teachers without proper hearings and not to pay the days on which public school teacher participated in the strike.
The authors of the bill — Republican Paul lundeen and Bob Gardner. They are already made some Democrats, including Mike Johnston, who this year is running for Governor of Colorado.
«Teachers across the country — from West Virginia and Oklahoma to Arizona and our Colorado Express my opinion. Now we need to listen to teachers more than ever. This law tries to silence them, not to work on their problems,» said Johnston.
Estimated education Association of Colorado, the average teacher in the state annually spends $656 from their own money on school supplies for students. At the same time, the average teacher salary in Colorado in 46th place among all States.
Currently, the lack of school funding in Colorado is more than $800 million a year.
