From the POST-GAZETTE:
Pennsylvania State Education Association president James Testerman weighed in Wednesday with a letter to the locals of the state’s largest teachers union.
“I encouraged them to enter into discussion with their school boards about a pay freeze or other cost-saving measures to maintain their class sizes and academic programs,” he said in a news release.
But Ted Kirsch, president of the American Federation of Teachers-Pennsylvania, said, “Why is it they’re (Corbett administration) just asking teachers to make sacrifices when we have a source of potential income (Marcellus Shale) that’s been totally ignored? …
“There is a budget crisis. Let’s look at all the possibilities. How do you say on the one hand, all of these contributors who gave to my campaign, I’m not going to ask them to make sacrifices, but I’m going to ask teachers to make sacrifices? Not fair.”
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