Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Members of the Evanston/Skokie District 65 board of education approved a new agreement with the teachers’ union that includes salary increases for all teachers and more planning time for elementary teachers.
The District 65 board of education approved a new contract with the teachers’ union at a meeting Monday night, according to district spokesperson Pat Markham. Teachers and the board of education have been negotiating since March, and agreed to bring in a federal mediator earlier this summer. They reached a tentative agreement in late August, which the District 65 Educator’s Council ratified on Friday. “The contract benefits our teachers, our students, parents, and the entire community,” Supt. Hardy Murphy said in a press release from the district. “It is fair to all, and represents what we believe is in the best interests of the entire Evanston/Skokie School District 65.” The new contract covers four years beginning with the 2012-13 …
Saturday, September 8, 2012
More than three-fourths of the District 65 Educator’s Council voted to approve a new contract. The vote came after six months of debate between teachers and the administration.
Members of the District 65 teachers’ union ratified a new contract with the administration by a large majority on Friday, according to union president Jean Left. Union representatives and district administrators had reached a tentative agreement Aug. 27, after six months of bargaining. That agreement was shared with teachers on Thursday, Aug. 30, and they voted by secret ballot on Friday, Sept. 7. “The new contract agreement improves several areas of the District 65 learning and working environment and also provides avenues for making future improvements in additional areas,” Luft said in a press release. Teachers and the administration butted heads over the school board’s proposal to cut fine arts positions and decrease teachers’ …
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Members of the District 65 Educator’s Council (DEC) will vote on a tentative contract this Friday, Sept. 7. The administration and the union have been negotiating since March.
Union president Jean Luft said she is “optimistic” that a tentative contract agreement will be ratified by the District 65 teachers’ union during a vote this Friday. Teachers and the administration have been negotiating a contract since March, and both parties agreed to bring in a federal mediator in August. After five sessions with the mediator, they reached a tentative agreement at 4 a.m. Monday, Aug. 27. At issue was the district’s proposed 2012-13 budget, which would leave nine vacancies or retirements unfilled, reassign 22.5 positions and eliminate 4.5 temporary positions and two fine arts teachers. Board members approved a tentative version of the budget at a meeting last week; a final vote is scheduled for Sept. 24. The district…
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The District 65 Educator’s Council will vote on a tentative contract agreement next week. School district officials and representatives of the union have been negotiating since March.
Members of the District 65 teachers’ union will vote next week on the tentative contract that union representatives and district officials agreed to on Monday. Details of the contract will be shared with the District 65 Educator’s Council (DEC) on Thursday, Aug. 30, the first day of work for teachers, according to a press release from union president Jean Luft. Teachers will vote by secret ballot the week school begins. “The District 65 teachers are eager to begin a successful school year with the students on Sept. 4,” Luft said in the release. Teachers and the administration have been negotiating a contract since March, and both parties agreed to bring in a federal mediator in August. After five sessions with the mediator, they reached …
Monday, August 27, 2012
With the help of a federal mediator, both parties approved a tentative contract Monday morning. The agreement must still be ratified by the teachers’ union and approved by the school board.
After months of negotiation between District 65 officials and the teachers’ union, both parties agreed on a tentative contract Monday morning. "Our teachers can confidently start school this week, and our students can begin the school year as planned on Tuesday, Sept. 4," board president Katie Bailey said in a press release from the district. Details of the tentative agreement cannot be released until it is ratified by the teachers’ union, according to District 65 spokesperson Pat Markham. If the union approves it, the contract will then go before the board for a vote in September, she said. The District 65 Educator’s Council (DEC) and the administration have been negotiating on a new contract since March, and agreed to bring in a federal…
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Teachers rallied to protest proposed cuts to fine arts positions before Monday night’s District 65 board meeting. Contract negotiations continue between union representatives and the administrations.
At least one hundred teachers and their supporters marched down Church Street to the District 65 administration building last night, protesting a proposed budget that includes cuts to arts, music and P.E. staff. Members of the teachers’ union, the District 65 Educator’s Council (DEC), are in the midst of negotiating a new contract that would begin with the 2012-13 school year, which starts on the first day of school—just two weeks away. After both parties could not reach agreement on their own, a federal mediator came in to assist with the negotiations in August. “Let’s get the contract settled, let’s get the school doors open and let’s give the children the quality education they deserve,” union president Jean Luft told the school board…
Monday, August 20, 2012
Members of the District 65 teachers' union and their supporters marched down Church Street, calling for a "fair contract" and protesting proposed arts cuts.
"What do we want?" yelled one teacher with a bullhorn. "A fair contract!" responded the crowd outside the District 65 administration building. As contract negotiations drag on between the teachers' union and district officials, union members came out in force to protest proposed arts cuts before Monday night's school board meeting. District 65 Educator's Council (DEC) president Jean Luft said the group had voted earlier this summer to authorize leadership to put in motion the actions needed to strike. But that's a situation they're hoping to avoid, she said. "We're trying very hard not to have it come to a strike," Luft told Patch. District officials and union representatives have been discussing a new contract for teachers since March. In…
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The board of education passed a tentative budget with a five percent reduction in expenditures Monday night. The largest chunk of the budget, teacher salaries, is still being negotiated, however.
More than three-quarters of District 65’s expenditures for the coming school year remain uncertain as teachers and the administration continue to negotiate salaries and benefits. The board of education passed a tentative budget for fiscal year 2012-13 on Monday night, including a five percent reduction in expenditures. But since teachers’ contracts expired this year, the ultimate figures are still up in the air while district officials and union representatives meet with a federal mediator to determine another contract. “There is a lot of uncertainty, with this budget and with budgets in the future,” said District 65 comptroller Kathy Zalewski. “Eighty-five percent of our operating expenditures are being negotiated,” she added, explaining…
Dan Z
11:59 am on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Jenny, sounds like you are really the biased party. What evidence do you have that the articles regards the union as a nuisance? more ›