Glitches in Los Angeles Payroll System Spark Furor

Autor/in	Trotter, Andrew
Titel	Glitches in Los Angeles Payroll System Spark Furor
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2007) 42, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	School Districts; Urban Areas; Educational Administration; Problems; Teacher Salaries; School District Spending; Computer Oriented Programs; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School district; Schulbezirk; Urban area; Stadtregion; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Problemsituation; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Computerprogramm; Kalifornien
Abstract	Thousands of Los Angeles teachers have not been paid properly for months because of errors in a corporate-style payroll system that was introduced in January as part of a sweeping, $95 million computer modernization. The Los Angeles Unified School District acknowledges that the payroll system's rollout was rushed and tainted by numerous programming glitches and insufficient training of school-based pay officials. Yet the district teachers' union has not been satisfied with such explanations. It sued the district this spring, even before a massive failure of the system on June 5--a day the district now calls "Black Tuesday"--when roughly 28,000 employees were overpaid and 4,500 received less than they were due. The union also called on its members this month to boycott after-school faculty meetings until the payroll problems are fixed. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10