Summer/Fall Bargaining Strategy Meeting Thursday, May 25, 5pm DCTA Office 1500 Grant St Come to this strategy meeting to create a successful plan to keep your members and contacts engaged in the bargaining process while school is out in order to hit the ground running when school starts again....
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Whole Child Monday, May 15, 2017, 5pm North High School Sandoval Lecture Hall (B243), 2nd Floor District: Funding Whole Child Initiatives Nice, Not Necessary The DCTA Bargaining Team and DPS officials met last night as part of ongoing contract negotiations to discuss prioritization of programs that support Whole Child initiatives....
Read MoreWorkload Monday, May 1, 2017, 5pm North High School Sandoval Lecture Hall (B243), 2nd Floor The Tom and Susana Road Show, Part 2 Last night, with Superintendent Tom Boasberg and Deputy Superintendent Susana Cordova in attendance, DCTA and the District met to discuss the issue of teacher and SSP workload....
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At the public bargaining session held last night between DCTA and DPS, the DCTA Bargaining Team presented an open letter from all of the labor unions that represent DPS employees on the Benefits Board to Superintendent Tom Boasberg in support of their proposal to make...
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Living Wage and Other Proposals Monday, April 17, 2017, 5pm North High School Sandoval Lecture Hall (B243), 2nd Floor District to DCTA: We can?t afford a living wage First-year teacher Kevlyn Walsh gave a passionate accounting to DPS officials last night of the challenges she faces as a teacher working...
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Bargaining Update: DCTA Works to Pull DPS Into the 21st Century Monday, April 3, 2017, 5pm North High School Sandoval Lecture Hall (B243), 2nd Floor The DCTA Bargaining Team laid out a series of contract proposals to DPS representatives last night (April 3) that if enacted would effectively elevate...
Read MoreLEAP Monday, March 20, 2017, 5pm North High School Sandoval Lecture Hall (B243), 2nd Floor In order for us to win a fair contract, DCTA members will have to show a great level of commitment and perseverance, because DPS will not change their stance on important issues, unless they...
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As you may know, the District last week announced a new policy proposal to ban any suspensions or expulsions for children in early grades. We responded with an open letter expressing our disappointment in the District?s decision to not include teachers in the conversation, despite...
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DPS lies by omission. DPS administration evasive and opaque: Bargaining in bad faith On Monday night (March 13), DCTA and DPS met to negotiate Article 18 [Student Discipline] of the Master Agreement between the two entities. During this session, DCTA specifically called attention...
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Rob Gould is in his 20th year of teaching and in his second decade of serving as a conduit to district officials as a member of the DCTA Bargaining Team. In all those years of negotiations, he has never before witnessed the high level of...
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