TAMPA, Fla. — The battle between Hillsborough County teachers and the school district is escalating, and school board members even called for an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the district’s budget issues further.

The Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association is working to make sure no teacher is left jobless next school year, and said Superintendent Addison Davis could do better with the budget.

“We've only wanted Mr. Davis here to bring stability, but right now we feel the opposite of that.  We feel he's unstable in every aspect of that,” said Rob Kriete, President of the Hillsborough Classroom Teacher's Association.

On Friday, HCTA members expect to learn more about the job cuts at the emergency board meeting.

Kriete said the union already filed a grievance with the school district for violating its contract when about 100 teachers found out that they wouldn’t have jobs next year via email. He said per the contract, they should’ve been notified by March 30 and the news shouldn’t have come in an email.

Superintendent Davis has since apologized for the method of communication, but there’s already a petition circulating online calling for him to resign, and even some school board members have questioned his competence.

In the meantime, Kriete said the Union is working with those teachers to make sure they have jobs next school year, but with these types of cuts, he said parents should know students will be affected.

“Parents need to contact school board members,” Kriete said. “They're the levers of change in the district.  They make the decisions on the superintendent and the leadership of what happens here, so my recommendation is that they're going to feel these effects in the schools next year.

“We're going to have bigger class sizes than we've seen in many years here in Hillsborough and they need to let their school board members know how they feel about that because that's going to affect their children.”

The emergency board meeting is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday.