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Bevin's pension bill would end legal guarantee of paid sick days for teachers

Kentucky.com: Buried deep in Gov. Matt Bevin’s proposed pension bill is a paragraph that would eliminate the legal requirement for Kentucky school districts to provide at least 10 paid sick days every year for teachers and other full-time employees. Instead, the state’s 173 school districts each could provide as much or as little paid or unpaid sick leave as they chose.

The change has nothing directly to do with retirement benefits. And the Kentucky School Boards Association said Tuesday that it never asked for the language on page 386 of the 505-page bill.

“That provision is not something KSBA requested,” spokeswoman Mary Branham said. “In fact, we do have some concerns with it.”

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