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 [...]

SCTA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Action Alert WEEK OF March 12, 2012 Thursday, March 15th is the deadline for school districts to issue lay-off notices to teachers for the coming school year.   In this district, nearly 400 teachers will have received their pink slips by then, the shameful result of years of state budget instability and overspending [...]

SCTA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE WEEKLY UPDATE WEEK OF March 5, 2012 Action is the foundational key to all success.   ~Pablo Picasso   The District is facing a potential of a $43 million budget deficit in 2012-2013.  However, if we all take action, we can reduce the potential harm that this will cause to us and [...]