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  • #11 Questions about Community Schools (Article 52) in the new UTR contract

    How will the district level Community Schools Support Collaborative be chosen? What will be the composition of the Systems Change Collaborative? How will each Community School choose an Action Collaborative,…

  • #9 Wider Solidarity Is the Only Way to Really Win

    Since Bay Area Educators United came together in March 2021 the goal of the group has been to encourage and help foment greater solidarity, organization, and mobilization between educators across…

  • #9 Fire FCMAT

    Last Spring, Mike Fine, the CEO of FCMAT, spoke at a West Contra Costa Unified School District board meeting, saying that the district needed to “manage its expenses”, even though…

  • #9 A 53% Raise?

    We all know teacher salaries have declined in real dollars— but by how much?  I compared the salary of a beginning Berkeley teacher in 2004 (step 1, column 1), the…

  • #7 New York City Wins Class Size Reductions

    “Class sizes in New York City’s public schools will face stricter limits under a bill Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law Thursday, despite protests from Mayor Eric Adams that it…

  • #7 Solidarity News: Who We Are

    Two years ago a group of educators from several East Bay districts met to talk about how we could work toward action by educators wider than one district at a…

  • #5 Sticks and Stones

  • #5 What is a ULP?

    Under both federal and California law, employers and unions are prohibited from taking certain actions while a contract with a union is in effect. Unions are prohibited from striking. Employers…

  • #4 Dear BHS Colleagues,

    On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day I want to set aside worries about coping with the pandemic for a moment, to address the attempts to close the Black/White educational…

  • #2 Consolidations? Why Not Cut Class Size?

    Consolidations are happening across Bay Area districts in response to lower enrollment.  Classes of 25, or 27 are ’too small’ and have to be brought up to 30, or 32,…

  • #1 Different Not Less

       My class is different. I teach 11 students with moderate to severe disabilities. Due to the high needs of our class, we need 6 paraprofessional aides. They help with…