THIS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20
11:30 AM for ONE HOUR at the Admin Center: PLEASE BE THERE!
Dear NESPA Colleagues,
With NSEA’s help packing the School Board meeting last Tuesday (Aug 12), we were able to reach a tentative agreement on Friday. Now, NSEA needs our help.
At today’s (Monday) NSEA negotiations with the School Board’s bargaining team, no progress was made on the key issues in their negotiations: compensation, class size, and workload. NSEA is asking NESPA members to join our teachers in picketing this WEDNESDAY at 11:30 AM at the Admin Center. Negotiations will be going on at that time, and we want a large turnout to send the School Board and administration a message: “Get your priorities right.”
When they tried to close Woodin Elementary—a school that superbly serves our immigrant community---and move the program to Hollywood Hill Elementary, nearly closing that school to its own community, we stopped them.
This same School Board oversaw the use of tech dollars for administrators to purchase big screen TVs and ipods for personal use. Now, they are unwilling to address the realities that class sizes are rising; Northshore’s teachers have the lowest locally-funded salary supplement (TRI pay) compared to the 12 nearby school districts; and that teacher workloads are getting worse.
Please join us for ONE HOUR this Wednesday. The Admin Center is at 3330 Monte Villa Parkway, Bothell, WA 98021. It’s time for this School Board to get its priorities right. If you have an ipod, bring it as a symbolic gesture to remind the Board to get its priorities right.
I look forward to seeing you! Please call your co-workers, and feel free to bring your family.
Yours,
Deb Murphy,
NESPA Co-President
debemurph@hotmail.com
