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Read MoreDCTA's Position on the Denver Mayoral Race Voters across Denver are receiving ballots for the upcoming municipal election. With that, we have received many questions about candidates that DCTA will endorse; traditionally, we have not endorsed within mayoral races because the Denver School Board is elected...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 9, 2023 The Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) Endorses Denver Ballot Measure “YES on 2O” DENVER (Mar. 9, 2023) -- The Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) endorses the YES on 2O ballot measure, aimed at addressing affordable housing. DCTA joins a coalition of nearly...
Read MoreWe have been made aware of the DPS employee data breach that occurred between December 13, 2022, and January 13, 2023. We want to assure members that we’ve been in contact with DPS throughout the weekend to understand the potential impact this may have on...
Read MoreNovember 8, 2022 After four hours of negotiations, we were unfortunately unable to reach an agreement with the district around the school consolidation process last night. DCTA Bargaining Team members and staff have spent many hours listening to educators at the schools that will likely be...
Read MoreOctober 26, 2022 Denver Public Schools announced the 10 schools that will be consolidated due to declining enrollment last night. The following statement can be attributed to Rob Gould, special education teacher and president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA): “Every student, no matter the zip...
Read MoreThe DCTA bargaining team began negotiating with the district yesterday at 9 a.m. and continued negotiations for 24 hours, past the contract expiration deadline. After a great deal of collaboration and extremely hard work, the DCTA bargaining team was able to reach a Tentative Agreement...
Read MoreThe DCTA bargaining team negotiated with the district for three days last week. Conversations were centered around evaluations, educator voice, class sizes, caseloads, workloads, compensation and grievance procedure. Some contract articles were discussed through the interest based bargaining process however, our team determined that a...
Read MoreThe DCTA bargaining team negotiated with the district for five hours last night. Conversations were fully centered around compensation including a cost of living adjustment, step increases, extra duty pay, incentive pay/stipends and the overall salary schedule. We utilized the interest based bargaining (IBB) model...
Read MoreThis week, the bargaining team spent two entire days negotiating our master contract with the district. During that time, we covered contract articles 13-29. We additionally had conversations around paid family leave. Some of our proposals from yesterday’s session include: Providing educators 4 additional weeks of...
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