Progress Reports

Dec 20 |00:30 AM

The Contract stipulates that “reporting periods are every 6 weeks (6)” and yet...

The District is mandating the reporting of D/F grades through Performance Profile. This is in violation of the Contract as well as a repudiation of the spirit of an August 29, 2007 Memorandum of Understanding that stipulated that teachers could use their professional judgment in reporting those students at risk by using either telephone, e-mail, written notices, or Performance Profiles.

Background
Your GEA negotiating team has continued to stress that the timing and method of notification of students that may be in danger of failing a class should be left to the discretion of the professional in the classroom. Some teachers may choose to identify students who need support within three weeks of the beginning of a semester, while others may not have enough data during the same period to determine if a student needs outside of the classroom interventions. GEA negotiators have always held the position that teachers should be allowed to report that a student needs support at any time in a semester. Students that need interventions should be identified accurately--not based upon an obligatory, yet potentially inaccurate, one size fits all reporting timeline. Only when teachers have accurate data to report, based upon the realities of the course involved, should a conversation with counselors, students and parents regarding the status of the student’s progress in a class be initiated.

What should you do?
Progress Reports are due every 6 weeks. Prior to 6 weeks use your professional judgment as you identify students that are in danger of failing and notify students, parents, and counselors when appropriate and through the means that you currently employ (e.g. websites, e-mails, written notices, phone calls, including, but not limited to, Performance Profile).

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Latest District Offer

PLEASE NOTE: The District declared impasse BEFORE GEA had an opportunity to respond to this offer.

District Compensation Proposal for GEA

February 2, 2010

This proposal shall serve to modify the District’s October 22, 2009 proposal. The modifications are necessary based upon, among other things, the Governor’s January Budget proposal which included additional reductions in revenue for K-12 Education.

Effective with the 2009-2010 school year, reduce the work year for all unit members by two days with a corresponding reduction in annual base pay. Effective with the 2010-2011 school year, reduce the work year for all unit members by an additional three days, for a total of five (5) days with a corresponding reduction in annual base pay.
Reduce the salary schedule by 5% effective July 1, 2010.
Restructure health benefits for the 2011 Benefit year and beyond by, among other things, finding a replacement for PacifiCare and implement a maximum District contribution at each “tier” of coverage (e.g. employee, employee plus spouse, employee plus children and employee plus family) based upon 2010 District premium contributions for the lowest cost HMO plan. Further, co-pays and deductibles would be raised significantly for each health insurance plan.
Modify health benefits for retirees. The District proposes to “unbundle” retiree premiums and “cap” the District contribution for retiree premiums at the same rate as active unit members, effective July 1, 2010.
Restructure Article 10 to eliminate release periods for department chairpersons.

The District reserves the right to seek further compensation reductions in 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012, commensurate with and in proportion to any reductions in State Revenue beyond the current projections for 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012.

The District is open to discussing restoration language based upon increases in state funding. It is anticipated that the aforementioned reductions will last through 2011-2012.

The overriding goal of the District is to avoid layoffs in the 2010-2011 school year.

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