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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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......