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Bargaining Proposal

25-Feb-10

These proposals were developed based on membership input to the bargaining committee, and approved by the board of directors and rep council.

Bargaining Proposals for 2010-2013 Contract

Current contract language except the following additions, deletions, or changes.

Article 3 (Definitions) Add first cousin to immediate family

Article 5.13.1 Add some recourse if delays affect instruction. (tech repair)

Article 9.2.1 add harassment. (report of incidence)

Article 9.5 Clarification: Teachers may, but are not required, to allow a suspended pupil to complete assignments and to take tests missed during his/her suspension.

Article 10.1.1.2 Each comprehensive high school shall have the same number of instructional minutes per week.

Article 10.5.6.4 Allow teacher discretion on two weeks per month of professional development/collaboration

Article 10.5.6.4.1 delete “when needed” and change “announcements” to “business.”(ACT time in staff meetings)

Article 10.5.6.6 Delete (extra duty assignments)

Article 10.6.1.2 Reduce counselor work year by 5 days.(With no salary reduction) Librarians shall have the option of working up to 5 days in the summer before the start of the school year and taking the same number of days off during the school year.

Article 11 Add class size limit for ASP; add seven hour aide provided for ASP teacher

Article 12 Change Library Media Teacher to Teacher Librarian.

Article 12.1 The District shall employ at least eight (8) full-time equivalent Language Speech and Hearing Specialists, one to be assigned to each comprehensive high school.

Article 18.4.1 Change date of department chair election to third week of April

Article 21 Add provision for family members who are both certificated bargaining unit members to donate sick days to each other for non-catastrophic needs.

Article 26 Delete: A department chair will not be compensated an extra one-fifth (1/5) of the teacher’s daily rate unless they teach six (6) periods.

Article 27 Limit the number of co-teaching assignments; distribute special education students evenly throughout the regular education classes they are enrolled in; provide common prep time for co-teachers; allow special education teachers and their aides some common prep time.

Article 12 Add rotation list for after school teaching/tutoring positions.

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Please take a moment to consider these preliminary recommendations and leave any comments you may have.

25-Feb-10

CTA’s Recommendation Procedures for Statewide Public Office requires that, “Pre-primary Recommendations of the Interview Teams shall be published one month prior to the State Council meeting at which the Recommendations are to be voted.”

Below are the results of the interview team recommendations:

GOVERNOR: Edmund G. Brown Jr.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR: Gavin Newsom
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Neutral
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER: Dave Jones
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION: Tom Torlakson
State Board of Equalization: Second District: Chris Parker
State Board of Equalization: Third District: Neutral
State Board of Equalization: Fourth District: Jerome Horton

State Council representatives will be voting on these recommendations at the March 27-28, 2010 State Council meeting.

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State Council Report

22-Feb-10

You can see a copy of the Report of Directors, Committees, and Items of New Business in the MyCTA portion of the CTA.org website (you must be logged into MyCTA for this to work). 

If you have not already done so, please register on the MyCTA website.  You need your membership number from your membership card or your last copy of the CTA magazine.  If you can’t find it, please call the office. 

Major Policy for first reading.  If you like these policy statements, great.  If not, or if you would like to suggest any changes, please send them to me or Jan and we can carry your concerns forward.  At the next meeting these policy statements will become part of the organizational handbook and used by our staff in fighting for, against, or to change legislation. 

Page 51 (labeled L-1) Teacher Evaluation and Academic Freedom concerning Dismissal Procedures and Reduction in Force 

Page 58 (O-1) Professional Rights and Responsibilities concerning Permanent Status, Instructional Excellence (This one is marked as Immediate Action, but it is First Reading) 

page 60 (P-1) Civil Rights in Education concerning Health, Welfare, and Safety 

page 66 (R-1) Credentials and Professional Development concerning Administrator Effectiveness and Professional Development 

Items of interest from Committee Reports 

A-6, 7 – Lists out three NBI’s that Jan and I put forward at the previous meeting.  It looks like they are going to try to make these happen. 

Page H-2 

Co-consultant Jim Schlotz reported on health care reform legislation and led a committee discussion on bargaining strategy during the current economic conditions. The Negotiations Committee, without objection, forwards the following guidance to Council, local associations and their bargaining teams:
A. Local associations should continue to use the Protect, Mitigate, Restore strategy by:
a. Carefully and independently assessing the true financial condition of the
district;
b. Agreeing to changes only if they are necessary, appropriate, temporary in
nature and with built-in restorations when the economy improves;
c. Working closely with staff and Coordinated Bargaining Councils in all
aspects of bargaining;
d. Developing a bargaining plan to accomplish these goals while avoiding
using PERB and the impasse procedure. 

Census.gov has lesson plans for all ages concerning the census 

Pages E-6-8 have an important message from the state controller on the budget.  E10-11 is a letter from the Education Coalition in response to the Governor’s budget proposal. 

On K-1 (45)  There are 5 initiatives that are expected to be on the state ballot.  CTA is opposing the first three and supporting the last two. 

T-2,3  

2. The Retirement Committee received NBI-1-10-27: Sponsor legislation that allows CalSTRS members with less than 25 years of service credit who are 60 years of age or older to use their highest year of compensation for computation of retirement benefits.  a. The Committee will address this at next council after further research. 

 

INFORMATIONAL ITEMS 

1. The CALSTRS Unfunded Liability Task Force continues to study, discuss, and analyze the unfunded liability issues in the CALSTRS trust fund. The Committee, which is a collaboration between FPR, NEG, RET and CALSTRS, will meet again on February 23, 2010. The CALSTRS Board will meet on February 5, 2010 to discuss the CalSTRS Trust Fund shortfall for the fiscal year 2008-09. The anticipated unfunded liability in June 2010 will be reported at approximately $42.6 billion over a 30 year period. The full funding level has dropped from 87% in June 2008 to 77% in June 2009. Despite these anticipated losses, the Fund has grown from a low of $110 billion in 2008 to $134 billion as of Jan. 1, 2010.

2. The New Public Employee Benefit Reform Act (Fritz Initiative) is out for signatures. DO NOT SIGN THIS INITIATIVE. If you see this initiative in your area, please contact your local primary staff, your geographical Board Member or Retirement staff consultant, Steve DePue. We encourage members to ask signature gatherers if they are paid per signature or if they are proponents for the cause, why do they believe this is an issue that needs to be resolved through the initiative process, and challenge them with how this initiative will negatively impact teachers and education.

The NEA video, GPO-WEP – Penalties for Public Service is now available online at:

http://www.nea.org.home/16491.htm or on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+XeVDDBtFfWO

 

 

 

 

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Calendar Negotiations

20-Jan-10

If you would like to discuss the current contract negotiations, please feel free to use the comments section as a forum.

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Happy Holidays, I got you this great newsletter…

10-Dec-09

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Click the link above for the complete newsletter.  Jan’s message is pasted below.

May Peace be your gift at Christmas.
May the closeness of friends, the comfort of home, and the
Unity of our nation, renew your spirits this holiday season
May the peace and joy of the holiday season be with you
Now and throughout the coming year.
Have a Happy Holiday Season
Jan

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Bargaining committee meets tomorrow

18-Nov-09

The bargaining committee will meet tomorrow, November 19 to continue working on the proposal for the 2010-11 contract.

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Blog Training Scheduled

13-Nov-09

For those of you that may be interested in learning how to use a blog for your classroom website or how to get the students involved in blogging, please plan on coming to an informal training/workshop on Wednesday, November 18.  We will meet at 3:30 in Room 6 of the Business department at Chaffey High School (located in the row of rooms along 5th St.)

For those of you who read this shortly after I posted it, the second topic of the training is redundant.  I will also be discussing the use of RSS to track student progress if you require them to complete blogs in class.  RSS is a way to keep track of changing information as it happens.

Please let Jan know if you plan on attending, but don’t worry if you forget to RSVP, just come on down.  I’ll see you there!

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