San Francisco Unified School District bounces teachers’ stipend checks

By Joe Eskenazi : missionlocal – excerpt

In the latest instance of the San Francisco Unified School District having difficulty paying its employees, some of the city’s most-credentialed teachers had their stipend checks bounce last week.

Multiple public school teachers have reported to Mission Local that their attempts to deposit the $5,000 check the district pays to National Board Certified instructors have failed.

“Over the weekend, I went to the ATM to try to deposit it and the ATM said ‘error,’” said Tara Ramos, a teacher-librarian at Sanchez Elementary School in the Mission. “I took it to the teller and they tried three different ways and they couldn’t take it.”…(more)