By Mary O’KEEFE
Senate Bill 847 has been approved and is now waiting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signature, as of press time.
This was the last bill to reach the State Senate floor Tuesday night. If signed the bill enables the state to funnel approved federal dollars to local districts.
“California’s share from Washington is about $1.2 billion. This [...]
By Rachel KANE
California School Employees Association (CSEA) Chapter #3 and the Glendale Unified School District reached a tentative employee agreement Tuesday for the 2010-2011 through the 2012-2013 school years.
The agreement includes concessions made by the CSEA in favor of keeping the district in solid financial standing in light of the current state budget crisis, including [...]
By Rachel KANE
An advisory report issued by an independent fact-finding panel that may have played a major role in employee labor negotiations between the Glendale Unified School District and the Glendale Teachers Assoc. this month is poised to be released to the public in little more than a week.
The report came after the district and [...]
By Rachel KANE
Glendale Unified School District officials and Glendale Teachers Association representatives reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on contract negotiations regarding the 2010-2011 and 2012-2013 school years.
The agreement comes on the heels of the release of an independent fact-finding panel’s advisory report, released to the district and the teachers association on Aug. 17 after months [...]
By Mary O’KEEFE
The Glendale Unified School District and Glendale Teachers Union remain in a holding pattern as they await the results from the fact finding report expected by Aug. 15.
At the July 27 GUSD school board meeting Assistant Superintendent John Garcia ran through a Power Point presentation to help clarify the time line of when [...]
By Mary O’KEEFE
The James R. Brown Award was presented to Linda Evans at Tuesday’s board meeting of the GUSD.
Evans, who retired this year as the principal of Crescenta Valley High School, told the board she was accepting the award on behalf of the staff and students at her former school.
The award’s namesake, James Brown, is [...]
By Michael YEGHIAYAN
The leaders of the Glendale Teachers Association and Glendale Unified School District met for a fact-finding hearing on July 16 as part of the ongoing efforts to settle the contract dispute between the two parties. The two argued before a state appointed fact-finding panel, but were unable to reach a suitable resolution.
The neutral [...]
By Shari EMAMI
About 100 Glendale community members, neighbors and teachers gathered outside the home of school board president Greg Krikorian on Wednesday evening, May 26, to silently protest the school board’s recently proposed 50% increase in class size and teacher layoffs in response to budget cuts. The Glendale Teachers Association held the vigil, handing out [...]
By Mary O’KEEFE
After a Tuesday four-to-one vote by the Glendale school board, the district will be rescinding 22 layoffs notices that had been sent out to teachers in March. That is good news for the 22 but leaves 70 elementary school teachers and 13 secondary teachers still holding pink slips.
“As painful and as heartbreaking as [...]
By Brandon HENSLEY
The GUSD board meeting on Tuesday featured an awards presentation to some standout educators, then attention was turned to the job status of those teachers.
The ongoing issue of layoffs within the district was again talked about, as parents and children from several elementary schools were allowed to speak in favor of rescinding the pink slips.
Around 105 teachers have been handed RIF notices (ReductionIn Force) due [...]