Bargaining update #9

It’s December — and during the season of giving, you might want to check Donors Choose and make a wish for your classroom. You never know, your wish just might come true! May your holiday season be all wrapped up with cheer and filled with celebration for the New Year. Here’s to peace, prosperity, good health and happiness to you and yours!

Explore the most recent changes to the Dashboard and considerations for Year 2 of the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP). ALL audiences are welcome to attend – parents, students, community members, superintendents, board members, principals, teachers, and classified staff. There are two options to join the training: In-person at the Hilton Sacramento Arden West OR virtually through a livestream (make your selection in the registration form). Please note: This session focuses on CA Dashboard/LCAP updates since the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence’s Spring 2017 workshop series. If you are new to Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), you are encouraged to review the Spring 2017 materials.

Have you checked out our page on School Safety lately? Here you will find our policy on school safety/school management, safety resources, including the ability to pledge to support the public school education that ALL students deserve, information about Alternative Discipline and Restorative Practices, and hot off the presses, the new Guide to School Safety.

Educators can order materials to use in the classroom for the upcoming Bill of Rights Day, Dec. 15. Help students better understand the Bill of Rights and get detailed lesson plans on how the Bill of Rights helps guarantee individual rights. And … a great assignment for your kids leading up to that special day: Ask them to address their U.S. Senators and answer the following question: “What right(s) in the Bill of Rights are important to me and why?” Have your students go to the websites for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris or send them an email at Feinstein.senate.gov and Harris.senate.gov answering that important question.