2/11- Bargaining Update

Hi EU members and Envision teachers,

We have now met twice with Envision Education to make changes to the contract.  The Articles of the contract we are working on adding or changing are:

Special Education: Working on compliance and other support & sustainability issues.

Evaluation: Working on the piloted evaluation system that was created by the evaluation task force from the prior contract.

Grievance: Ensuring our ability to grieve all articles of the contract (the current language excludes some articles from the grievance process).

Academic Freedom: Proposal of EU members as part of a committee making network decisions on common curricula. Also proposed that all teachers have access to a curriculum.

Assignments and Vacancies: Making the process for assignments and transfers more transparent.

Safety: Ensuring compliance with safety standards and clarifying the language in the contract around reasonable physical control during student fights etc..

Class Size:  Ensuring every student has a class size that maximizes their learning opportunities, ELL support services, and notification of new students when they are assigned to a class. 

Compensation: As we get further into the process and other financial implications are settled we will be better able to discuss the financial piece of the contract.

Catastrophic Leave Bank: The ability to donate sick days to catastrophically ill colleagues.  This may be a separate proposal or some of our concerns may be folded into the existing LEAVES article. 

Leaves: Ensuring your ability to use personal necessity when you need it.

Retirement: We are proposing the inclusion of  a Pre-retirement reduced service option with STRS.

Hours, Duties and Work Year: Further clarifying and codifying what is required and what is not under the contract with relation to our work day.

Discipline and Discharge: We will make decisions on what to bring up in this article based on further discussion regarding the evaluations article.

Duration: Updates to contract years.

Dues: Removed obsolete language and dates.

At each bargaining session, we propose changes and Envision Education also proposes changes to each of these articles.  We continue to meet until we reach agreement on all articles.  As you can see we have a lot of work to do!  Please reach out to any bargaining team member, site rep, or officer if you have any questions or concerns.

@ EA contact John Kittredge john@envisionacademy.org
@ IAHS contact Katherine Lambert katherine@es-impact.org
@ IAMG contact Court Shuller cshuller@es-impact.org
@ CAT contact Michelle Torres mtorres@es-cat.org