List of Recent News Updates and News Messengers

  • ORGANIZING COMMITTEE UPDATE WEEK OF MAY 14, 2012 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 [...]
  • SCTA Announces Endorsements for Sacramento County School Board Elections April 30, 2012
    Sacramento City Teachers Association is endorsing the following candidates for the Sacramento County Office of Education: Estelle Lemieux, Area 4 Representing the communities of Orangevale, Citrus Heights, Fair Oaks, and a portion of Carmichael. Heather McGowan , Area 5 Representing the communities of Alder Creek, Bridge House, Folsom, Gold River, Mather, Mills, Natoma, Nimbus, Rancho [...]
  • NEWS MESSENGER April 20, 2012 April 20, 2012
    BARGAINING UPDATE The District and the SCTA bargaining teams recently reached a conceptual agreement for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years. Unfortunately, the Sacramento County Office of Education Superintendent Dave Gordon has chosen not to approve the agreement.  Instead, Mr. Gordon is trying to insert significant language changes.   The changes are completely unacceptable to SCTA [...]
  • SCTA ORGANIZING UPDATE April 10, 2012 April 10, 2012
    SCTA Organizing Committee   Weekly Update Week of April 9, 2012 “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” Vince Lombardi California’s public schools already have lost over 20 billion dollars in funding over the past few years and are set to lose another $4.8 billion next year unless [...]
  • SCTA GENERAL ELECTIONS RESULTS April 2, 2012
    1st Vice President:             Nikki Milevsky             558             Write-in                               3  2nd Vice President:             Erik Knudson               551             Write-in                              5  Secretary:             Cheryl Sims                  517             Write-in                            11  Treasurer:             Robert Lynch               447             Carlos Rico                    188             Write-in                               2  Elementary Director (2 Elected):             Cindee Stewart            236             [...]

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