DCTA News

  • 29 Aug Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) Endorses Scott Baldermann for School Board Director in District 1: 

    CONTACT Angelina Reed Denver Classroom Teachers Association  AReed@coloradoea.org 720-663-7618 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 29, 2023 Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) Endorses Scott Baldermann for School Board Director in District 1:  DENVER – The Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA), representing nearly 4,000 Denver Public Schools educators,......

  • 23 Aug Statement from Rob Gould, special education teacher and president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) on Denver Public Schools Classroom Heat Concerns

    CONTACTAngelina ReedDenver Classroom Teachers AssociationAReed@coloradoea.org720-663-7618 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 23, 2023 Statement from Rob Gould, special education teacher and president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) on Denver Public Schools Classroom Heat Concerns:  “There is nothing more important to educators than providing a safe, welcoming,......

  • 16 Aug DCTA Statement on McAuliffe International Investigation:

    CONTACTAngelina ReedDenver Classroom Teachers AssociationAreed@coloradoea.org720-663-7618 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 16, 2023 Statement from Rob Gould, special education teacher and president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association on McAuliffe International investigation: “Every student in Denver Public Schools deserves access to a high quality and equitable education with......

  • 03 May DCTA Statement and Recommendations on School Safety

    The Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) is a democratically run organization that represents almost 4,000 DPS educators, including teachers, counselors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, CTE instructors, sign language interpreters, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists. We are committed to advocating for safe, fully......

  • 21 Mar DCTA’s Position on the Denver Mayoral Race

    DCTA’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......

  • 09 Mar The Denver Classroom Teachers Association Endorses Denver Ballot Measure “YES on 2O”

    FOR 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......

  • 06 Mar Addressing the DPS Data Breach

    We 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......

  • 08 Nov DCTA Bargaining Update – School Consolidations

    November 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......

  • 01 Sep Bargaining Update: Tentative Agreement Reached

    The 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......

  • 30 Aug DCTA Bargaining Update – Where we are now 8/30/2022

    The 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......

  • 30 Aug DCTA Bargaining Update: August 25, 2022

    The 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......

  • 24 Aug  DCTA Bargaining Update: August 23, 2022

    The DCTA bargaining team negotiated with the district for five hours last night.  Conversations were centered around evaluations, educator voice, class sizes, caseloads, workloads and planning time. We utilized the interest based bargaining (IBB) model to facilitate today’s conversations (learn about IBB here). Here are......

  • 17 Aug DCTA Bargaining Update: August 17, 2022

    The DCTA bargaining team negotiated with the district all day today. We utilized the interest based bargaining (IBB) model to facilitate today’s conversations. The IBB approach is different from traditional bargaining. It is meant to replace traditional positional bargaining with a process of joint problem-solving......

  • 17 Aug DCTA Bargaining Update: August 9th and 10th

    Last week, the bargaining team spent two whole days negotiating our master agreement with the district. Conversations were centered around the rights of BIPOC educators, Article 19 and Articles 21-29. We were also joined by researchers at CU Boulder who presented their findings on bias......

  • 04 Aug DCTA Bargaining Update 8/3/22

    Today the bargaining team spent several hours negotiating our master contract with the district. We are disappointed in many of the district’s proposals and priorities as they do not address the direct needs of our students or educators. Some of the districts proposals from today......