Negotiations Update
June, 2004
OFT Ratification Vote: 153 yes, 2 no
Transfers and Reassignments: This topic was carried over from last year's negotiations. As our enrollment declines, transfers and reassignments will become more common. This replacement article clarifies various types of transfers, provides for monetary compensation for transfers and reassignments, and ensures that teachers are not arbitrarily transferred by creating a review panel. Teachers will also participate in the planning process for staffing at sites.

Three-grade Combination Compensation: In order to recognize the extra efforts required for a triple combination class, teachers will now get a $200 stipend. This becomes a permanent part of the contract.

Leaves: Last year's side letter on leaves will now become a permanent part of the contract, clearly delineating the rights of teachers returning from leaves. Sections containing nebulous and conflicting verbiage will be removed.

Preparation Time: This article makes permanent the side letter on Kindergarten preparation time, and creates blocks of student free preparation time for elementary teachers.

Benefits: All health benefits will remain unchanged.

Welcome to the Ojai Federation of Teacher's Brand New site!

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The "Denim for Dollars, Dollars for Scholars" campaign has raised money to provide scholarships to graduating seniors planning on attending college. If you wear denim on Fridays, you are encouraged to donate a dollar to the MTA Scholarship fund. Lynn Ryan (@ Appleby) and Tammy McDougal (@ the HS) will be collecting the donations. These scholarships are made possible because teachers love denim on Fridays! (Click on heading to see 2011 recipients)

Welcome to nmcft.org. We are a union of certificated professionals dedicated to providing the best possible educational outcomes for our students, and the most productive and fair working conditions for our members.

AFT affiliates in Alabama recently announced a multifaceted campaign to address the very serious issues facing the state's public school students and its communities. In the coming months, union members will be engaging elected officials and community members in a variety of initiatives designed to improve conditions and provide much-needed financial resources for Alabama's public schools.

A Los Angeles Times series that rated thousands of elementary school teachers based on their students' average test score gains rattled the education world -- including many who study teacher effectiveness for a living.

At the core of the provocative newspaper report is a new method of teacher evaluation with an esoteric name -- "value-added" -- and a complicated statistical formula. This measurement is designed to estimate the average progress a teacher's students made during a given school year, compared to other teachers, as captured by standardized tests.

At a time when officers of the Mendocino County Federation of School Employees, (AFT Local 4345) bargaining team conceded to furlough days, a freeze in pay, and increased health care premium costs for classified and certificated members at the bargaining table, management of the Mendocino County Office have had their calendar years increased. About 15 union members and staff came to Monday's board of trustees meeting looking for answers which they said were not available to the negotiations team and not disclosed until Sept. 2.

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California recently signed into law the federal jobs bill that Congress passed in August.  The spirit and intent of the law is to retain, recall and hire classroom staff in light of our challenging economic times.  This money cannot be used to establish, restore or supplement a rainy day fund, supplant state funds to establish a rainy day fund, reduce or retire a state debt or supplant funds to rduce or retire a state debt. 

The GJUHSD will be receiving approximately $450,000.  It would be morally bankrupt and ethically wrong for the Distirct to fail to use this money this year.  If this money is set aside the families of employees will suffer, academic programs will suffer, and student learning will be negatively impacted (due to a possible rise in class size). 

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