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est offer we can make within our
'96-'97 budget, which includes the
$350-tuition increase you will be
paying," the letter said. "Addi-
tional increases beyond our last
proposal would result in a bud-
get deficit that would have to be
made up with your tuition dol-
lars in the following year."
• The board is requesting the
lengthening of the school year
by 10 days in the next two years.
Currently, the Hillel calendar is
about 150 days in length com-
pared to the public school year,
which is 180 days long.
Ms. Fleischer said that the
Hillel staff packs more hours of
instruction into those days than
the public schools do during
their year. Hillel teachers tally
1118 hours of instruction com-
pared with 990 for public-school
teachers.
"They have more half days
than we do, which makes their
year seem longer," Ms. Fleisch-
er said, adding that there have
been no offers to compensate the
teachers for the 10 extra days.
• A longevity bonus continues
to be an issue on both sides.
Teachers who work for more
than 17 years receive an extra
$350 a year. The union is seek-
ing to increase that amount by
$50 over two years; the board
has offered a $30-a-year in-
crease over three years.
'What's $10 for teachers who
have been there 17 years and
up?" Ms. Fleischer asked.
"That's a slap in the face."
• Teachers also are sticking to
their guns on the issue of pay
docking. Several years ago, they
agreed to forgo one day of pay in
the case of an absence for which
there was not an acceptable ex-
cuse such as illness. In an effort
to cut down on such absences
immediately prior to and after
a scheduled holiday vacation,
they also agreed to have a dou-
ble docking for those days.
The school interprets that
agreement to include other days
in the week pre- and post-holi-
days. Teachers, on the other
hand, want double-docking to be
restricted to the day immedi-
ately before and the day imme-
diately after the holiday.
• Finally, teachers are seek-
ing to ratify a two-year contract
while the board is seeking a
three-year agreement, Ms. Fleis-
cher said.
Ms. Fleischer said that, if nec-
essary, the teachers will make
themselves available for nego-
tiations up until Wednesday, ex-
cept for Shabbat.
"I am optimistic because I
don't think (the board) wants to
jeopardize the opening of the
school. They don't want declin-
ing enrollment," Ms. Fleischer
said. "But we'll see."

Staff Writer Jennifer Finer
contributed to this report.

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