The controversial practice of having “ghost teachers” in public schools is haunting another Pennsylvania school district. The lawsuit’s plaintiff, Americans for Fair Treatment (AFT), is seeking to end the practice of ghost teaching in Reading. Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania have voted in favor of a bill that would stop the state’s public school ghost teachers from collecting a paycheck from districts within the state. The Commonwealth Foundation, a Pennsylvania-based think tank, issued a report recently that found that more than 20 percent of Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts authorize full-time ghost teachers, according to a statewide survey of school district collective bargaining agreements. The issue at Reading School District is similar to a lawsuit that was filed in the Allentown (Pennsylvania) School District last year, which led to the pension credits of current and former union presidents being revoked.

Source: Fox News June 06, 2017 17:03 UTC