Last month, teachers at HTe and HTeX expressed concerns over the lack of information and teacher input regarding the Transitional Kindergarten (TK) program that HTH plans to implement at both schools in the 2024-2025 school year. In response to those concerns, HTEC asserted our members’ rights to bargain over the impacts and effects of the TK program so that HTe and HTeX teachers would have a seat at the decision-making table.
To prepare for negotiations, HTEC organized a TK bargain input session for the Point Loma elementary schools on March 21st to gather unit members’ priorities regarding implementation of the program. Subsequently, two teachers from each elementary school volunteered to serve on the TK bargaining team and were officially confirmed by unanimous vote of the HTEC officers. On Tuesday, our bargaining team met with the CMO for our first TK bargaining session. We used the meeting with the CMO to gather information about the implementation of the TK program and to ask questions about how the CMO intends to address specific concerns that teachers from both schools have raised. We then used the information they shared with us to present an initial proposal, which addresses the following areas:
Our team explained each section of the proposal to the CMO and responded to their questions. They will consider our proposal and will offer us dates for the next session, where we will anticipate their response. In Solidarity, The TK Bargaining Team Ricardo Borja, High Tech Elementary Starry Krueger, High Tech Elementary Vanesa Murrieta, High Tech Elementary Explorer Nikki Szudlo, High Tech Elementary Explorer Hayden Gore, HTEC President Comments are closed.
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