Steel+Valley+to+reinstate+3+teachers,+7+aides

=By Anne Cloonan= =//Published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette//= =//8/17/11//= = = = = = = =The Steel Valley school board voted Tuesday night to reinstate seven teachers' aides on a full-time basis. The board previously had said it would bring back the same seven aides on a part-time basis.= =The board also voted to recall three teachers from the furlough list.= =School director Michael Terrick said Superintendent William Kinavey at first thought the district could save $140,000 this year by bringing the aides back part-time instead of full-time, but closer inspection of the aides' union contract revealed he couldn't bring them back on a part-time basis.= =The district had furloughed a total of 15 teachers' aides in March and April, plus 40 teachers and other professional personnel, after administrators learned the district was scheduled to receive $2.4 million less from the state during the 2011-2012 school year than previously thought.= =The teachers recalled from the furlough list are Christina Szott, who will teach secondary math; Emilee Garcia , a full-time special education teaching position; and Erin Noblet , a full-time elementary teaching position.= =Read more: [] = = = =News= =home=