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December 2013
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 In this Parent newsletter we have:
  • A Message From Our  President, Kevin Moretti 
  • Kevin Moretti's School Board Report December 2013 

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 President's Message Kevin Moretti

 Dear Parents:    

     I have been attending the report card/assessment meeting that the District has been conducting to gain input from elementary teachers by grade level regarding report card and assessment issues.  Many teachers have expressed concern about the overwhelming amount of time teachers must spend conducting assessments one on one with students as well as the challenges with the current elementary report card. Other concerns from teachers include a lack of strong communication from CUSD to teachers regarding dissemination of the decisions that have been made.

 

     So far 2nd through 6th grade meetings have been held.  Kinder and 1st grade were held on the 16th and 18th of December.  To be clear, these meetings are not the end of the process, just the beginning.       CUTA is advocating that the District follow this ongoing procedure:            
1.) Notes from each meeting will be sent to all teachers at that grade level so that all teachers are informed regarding what changes are being considered.  
2. Teachers at each site will get together by grade level and discuss these changes.
3. Each site will send a representative to the next grade level meeting to share,  and then repeat, continuously.
   As changes are made to the elementary report cards and assessments, we will continue to modify and improve them.  This needs to be a systemic process to implement change.  

Thank you.

Kevin Moretti

CUTA President

343-0226 

 

CUTA President's Board Report  December 2013

December 18, 2013 

 

 

Dear CUSD School Board,

     CUTA voted Monday, December 9th to ratify the Tentative Agreement signed December 5th between the District and CUTA. The upside is that this concludes two years of negotiations. We have agreed on language that will be good for both sides. The downside is that it all starts over again almost immediately.

     CUTA will be asking members to fill out a newly designed bargaining survey. Our contract states that both sides will exchange proposals prior to February 1st. We will then sunshine "bring to the light of day" those proposals at the following School Board meeting, February 5.   The two teams are scheduled to meet twice per month from February to May as we negotiate for the 2014/15 school year.

      As CUTA has not had an ongoing salary increase since the 2007/08 school year, and as the Local Control Funding Formula is bringing new ongoing monies to CUSD, we will be seeking ONGOING salary increases in 2014/15.

 

Thank you for listening

Kevin Moretti

CUTA President

 

 

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