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Management’s proposal: “a real kick in the teeth”

Management returned to the bargaining table last Wednesday with their counterproposal to the SC/TA’s last salary proposal. Things did not go well. As you will recall, the SC/TA proposed a 5.75% across-the-board increase for teachers (on top of the .5% already received), with the restoration of the BA+30 and MA+45 […]

School Board Takes a Bad Turn

)2-17-21) Last month, the school board voted to hire a new attorney to replace Arthur Hardy, who has represented this district admirably for 30 years. The vote highlighted the continuing ugly split on our school board and raised serious questions as to who is actually running the school district: the […]

COVID-19: What we know about funding, privacy, leaves and the unknowns

Let me make something as clear as possible: opening schools in the midst of a raging pandemic is a very bad idea. It is bad for the safety of the employees, and it is bad for the safety of the students and their families. The obvious question: why is our […]

Lakeview Elementary students receive books to celebrate Kindness

Lakeview Elementary students received 650 books to help celebrate World Kindness Day, and to encourage more reading among children. The books, provided by Bradenton’s Kind Cotton, included “The Bad Seed,” a beautiful story of self love, perseverance, and kindness. Teachers throughout the school also led extension activities to reinforce the […]

Bipartisan Support for Retiring Teachers

With our statewide shortage of teachers has come a shortage of substitutes. And our Legislature is doing all it can to discourage retiring teachers from becoming the substitutes we need. For example, our state requires retired teachers to wait a year before they can return to the classroom part-time and […]

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