Summary of Articles

 

The summary of changes presented below are permanent to our Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and are not part of Covid impacts, protocols, or situations.  

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Article 1: Agreement

Each year we normally open salary, calendar, and two other articles of choice.  This year both TTA and the District agreed to move an article to next year’s discussions due to the complexity that is involved.  The presented language maintains the two Articles of choice and officially notes the two we agreed to move. 

Article 3: Recognition

Added Early Childhood Education Program Specialist – a position that has been in place in our Head Start and Preschool programs.  They are part of our bargaining unit, but were not properly noted.

Article 4: Hours of Work

Changes include a change for counselors that their additional hours may be assigned rather than days and that their lunch time will be the same as all secondary staff

Changes to Agriculture Teachers to provide a calendar to note summer schedules for workman’s comp situations and to note their extended work schedules

Faculty Meetings will be reduced from 75 to 60 minutes 

Article 5:  Salary 

No changes were agreed upon   

Although the District received quite a bit of funding this year, it was provided with COVID focus and restrictions.  We are still discussing one time money outside of this agreement, but there was not an increase to base salary or increases/changes to stipends. 

Article 6:  Leaves of Absence

A notation that getting a sub for pregnancy leave is not the responsibility of the employee 

Changes to Association leave that clarify the leave into two categories. One allows 10 days for members to attend conferences or other PD functions under CTA/TTA.  The other clarifies presidential or elected officer leaves at a full cost to TTA 

Article 8: Class Size

No changes were agreed upon   

We will continue to talk about the impacts of large class sizes and the number of students needed to trigger support. 

Article 10:  Safety Conditions

A reduction to the timeline response for safety concerns from 15 to 5 days

Reasonable support measures for safety conditions.  Awareness that we have no control over law enforcement responses to safety incidents

Notation that physical assault or harm will be documented and determination of outcome will proceed through an IEP or discipline procedure

Article 11: Grievance Procedure

No changes were agreed upon

We asked for our continued interest in binding arbitration to be added to the contract.  

Article 18:  Provisions for Head Start and Preschool

Cleaned up numbering of the article to be in-line with the rest of the CBA

Clarified employee tasks during the workday

Moved existing language around so that it was properly noted under the correct subheadings

Article 20:  Progressive Discipline

Separated Verbal Warning and Conference Summary Memorandum to be two separate steps

Added clarification to Letter of Warning and Letter of Reprimand

Cleaned up extraneous language within the right to appeal process

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Calendar:  for the 2022-23 school year

August 8th - Start for teachers

August 10th - Student start date

Day after Halloween PD, moved to January

Longer Winter Break

June 2nd - final day

 
Semester 1 – 86 Days

Quarter 1 – 9 weeks/42 days

Quarter 2 – 9 weeks/44 days

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Semester 2 – 94 days

Quarter 3 – 10 weeks/46 days

Quarter 4 – 10 weeks/48 days

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Trimester 1 – 62 days

Trimester 2 – 55 days

Trimester 3 – 63 days