CCS Roundup: 1/21- 2/1
Linden-McKinley High School is in the running to be a STEM school.
A bill currently being considered by the Ohio Senate Education Committee would ban teacher strikes in the state; CEA President Rhonda Johnson spoke out regarding the proposed legislation.
Superintendent Harris utters the “P” word, we can’t even say it.
Continue reading the latest CCS Roundup after the jump.
A new member of the Project Mentor team is excited for his upcoming involvement with CCS.
A possible bond issue on the ballot next year means fewer buildings being built in CCS as compared to previously.
The first town meeting has come and gone; grade realignment, the restoration of a regular-length day and the possibility of an upcoming levy are all on the public’s minds. More about the same meeting from a different source here.
Board Member Betty Drummond voiced her support for the increase in the length of the school day.
Teachers who get National Board Certification in the future may not get the $2,500 per year stipend– this affects 98 CCS teachers, the single largest number of NBCT’s in any district in the state.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:34 am
It is amazing that Ohio’s elected officials are propsing legislation that would undermine, limit, and decrease our collective bargaining rights. A bill to ban strikes? Term-limited Sen. Carey is pushing this, and it is a bad idea. More teachers need to speak out in opposition to SB 264!
It is equally amazing that the chair of the House Ed. Committee wants to limit who gets a financial reward for National Board Cert.
As a union, and as educators, we need to monitor our elected officials carefully.
February 8th, 2008 at 1:45 am
CEA, thank you for speaking to the legislature! It seems that they are determined to strip public school teachers of the rights held by other Ohio citizens. If my reading of the Ohio Revised Code creating “Academic Distress Commissions” is correct (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3302.10) they have already arranged to permanently erase bargained rights from contracts in certain districts, like Youngstown.
And what do you make of the demand that every teacher in Ohio holding a permanent or professional certificate has to find an agency to complete a BCI/FBI background check? In our area that requirement results in a steady stream of middle-aged to elderly school marms visiting the county jail, where the deputies struggle to get a decent ten-finger electronic print. (Apparently, age and handling of paper smooths away the finger ridges.) Why would the O.D.E. be so determined to sift through the backgrounds of law-abiding citizens in a search for a possible youthful misdemeanor? It is hard for me to imagine even youthful exuberance, never mind crime, in the background of my former kindergarten teacher.
Then there is the draft of a new Code of Conduct for public school teachers, although they haven’t waited for the code to be completed before listing names of offenders on the internet.
I don’t believe charter school teachers are included in either of the last two measures. In Youngstown, we definitely feel we are walking targets.