• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE UPDATE WEEK OF MAY 14, 2012
    Last Friday night in an emergency meeting, the SCUSD School Board unanimously voted (Gustavo Arroyo was not present) to reject a decision reached in recent layoff hearings by the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), which invalidated many of the lay-off “skipping” criteria that the District had used for issuing pink slips. The ALJ (who served as [...]
  • June Election Endorsements
    SCTA has endorsed the following candidates for the Sacramento County School Board: These races are critical because of recent actions the superintendent of the county has taken to interfere in our contract negotiations, and the county approving charter school applications for schools in our district (the Margaret Fortune schools).  To help with Harold Fong in Area [...]
  • Priority School Teachers
    We are hearing from priority school sites that some administrators at the direction of Superintendent Raymond are spreading misinformation to 1st and 2nd year probationary members about tonight’s board meeting.  It has been reported that they are being told they have to come to save their jobs.  Some have been told that if the board [...]
  • Administrative Law Judge Decision
    Layoff Hearing Results The proposed ruling by the administrative law judge (ALJ) from the recent layoff hearings invalidated many of the skipping criteria that the district had used for issuing pink slips.  In effect the ALJ (who serves as an independent third party) found: Many priority school skips were invalid A number of math skips [...]
  • NEWS MESSENGER May 1, 2012
    Bargaining Update SCTA met with a representative of the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) yesterday. As previously reported, SCOE has decided to insert itself into the bargaining process by demanding that SCTA and the District drastically alter the terms of our conceptual agreement.  At yesterday’s meeting SCTA sent a very clear message that we [...]