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PAT Rep Meeting

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

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How this meeting will (hopefully) work:

Because we have so many of us on the line, there will be mostly presentation and not any dialogue, but we do encourage everyone to use the Q & A feature of Teams.
Please be patient and allow us to present all of the information that we want to share before we address any of your questions.
Please try to keep your questions focused on the topic at hand.
If you have questions that are NOT related to the topics on the agenda, please hold them to the end-- we will stick around to answer.

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Presidents Message:

The economy and our schools budget

Anticipated Great Recession/Depression

Some estimates predict a 60 million dollar shortfall for PPS

Revised State Budget comes out May 20th

We don’t know yet:

Will staffing need to be redone?
What will schools look like next year?

In the meantime, advocate for federal funds via NEA:NEA is calling for an additional $175 billion to stabilize education funding—the $30.7 billion authorized thus far is not nearly enough. Email your members of Congress and tell them to keep students learning and educators working.

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President’s Message:

We are in this together

Work Share saves approximately 10 million dollars

It’s an unusual opportunity- but exactly what congress intended with the CARES act:

Save jobs
Stimulate the Economy

We are working on opportunities for charitable giving- especially to our PPS families and students. Be on the lookout for further communication.

In the meantime, give to the OEA Foundation, and apply for grants to help your families.

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President’s Message:

Furlough Workshare

We are furloughed on Fridays:

Don’t work on Friday
Work week reduced from 25 to 20 hours

We are making up 3 days: June 8, 9, 10.

Planning Day on 11th,
furlough day on June 12th.

This means student only lose 2 instructional days, and meals are provided for an additional week.

Application process for UI begins next week, streamlined for PPS

Optional Informational session to learn more at workshare tomorrow, Thursday, May 7th at 3:30pm. It will also be recoded and emailed out.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89253403568

Phone # 1(346) 248-7799 or 1(669) 900-6833

Webinar ID# 892-5340-3568

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Agreement on Workload under Distance Learning

In agreement

Teaching can be synchronous or asynchronous
Video conferencing not required
Evaluation:

Distance learning not used in evaluating educators
POAs held in abeyance

Still Working on it

Pay for IEP writing/conferencing
Workload for part time people
Specific language regarding workweek under four-day arrangement
The number and duration of meetings in a four day week

Enforcing Agreement

My principal is violating the new agreement, telling staff that they should be doing live video instruction every day. What can we do?

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Special Education Update

Changes Won

Staff may document their parent/student contact using any system that they deem appropriate.
PLC’s and SIT are optional
Staff meetings are optional
Upon notification, your supervisor will help prioritize when you anticipate working beyond your 25 hours
Translation services available for IEPs and Distance Learning Plans
Communication is streamlined from SPED and will be coming out once a week as a “newsflash”

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Building Rep Elections

Normally…

We hold Rep Elections live in April or May.

But with physical distancing…

We are working to develop a system to allow for a secure and confidential vote at each site.

For Now

Notify all the members at your site that Rep Elections will be coming up, and that all members are eligible to run.
Think about who is trusted and respected in your building. Talk to them about running!
Think about representation. Does your Rep team ballot include a balance of experiences that mirrors the members at your site? Consider grade level, subject, gender, race, and age.
You get to elect 1 Rep for every 9 members, so aim to get at least that many people to run.
Make a list of everyone running. We will have next steps soon.

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Contract Exceptions

What is a contract exception?

It’s a limited modification of a provision in your union contract. It is specific to your building.

Who can initiate a contract exception?

Only members of the union at your building. A building administrator cannot initiate this process.

What is the procedure?

The PAT Building Head Rep (1)educates the membership on the potential impact of this exception; (2) Prepares a secret ballot and (3) conducts the election. Finally, the Head Rep will complete the PAT contract exception form found on the PAT website and submit to the PAT Advocacy Committee and await approval/denial.

What are the deadlines?

PAT Advocacy Committee reviews forms on a rolling basis with last date for submissions May 1st. Exceptions are only valid for the school year for which it was approved.

Contract Exceptions:

Every year, the PAT Advocacy Committee receives requests from building reps about how to suspend or slightly modify a contractual provision. We call this limited modification to a provision of the contract, a contract exception or simply, “exception” as our short hand.

Most contract exceptions involve requests to make changes in the teacher work year (article 6), in the workday (article 7) or workload (article 8). I’ll briefly go through the process, but quite simply, a contract exception must be initiated by an educator at a building and not a building administrator. The PAT Advocacy Committee creates the exceptions application process – not PPS. The slide outlines the process: 1, 2,3…

All exceptions expire at the end of the school year in which they were granted. Meaning, if your building was granted a contract exception in this academic year, it will terminate at the end of this school year in June.

If a building wants to initiate a building exception, we have a full check list of documents you’ll have to gather in addition to submitting a completed form to the PAT Advocacy Committee.

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PAT Budget

PAT Executive Board has passed an Interim Budget

We may have to readjust the budget when we know more about staffing levels for next year

When we are back together as a Representative Assembly, we will vote to formally adopt the budget.

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Budget Highlights

Based on current staffing levels (new dues x Jan 2020 FTE)
Largely maintains budget for Bargaining Organizing
Piloting Advocacy Cadre: training, release time, to allow members to better support our union's advocacy needs. (Contract, representation, evaluation, admin meetings)
Significant Increase to Racial Equity committee to support Racial Equity Socials, and Racial Equity PD for members
Adds back scholarship fund, to support future educators of color
Significant Increase to Social Justice and Community Outreach Committee, to support ongoing SJ Socials, Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, and community event and student organizing

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Move Out Process

Category #1: Required to move to new school due to:

School Closure
Reconfiguration
Conversion
Merger
Relocation of grade levels, programs or classes.

Category #2: Unassigned due to:

School Closure
Reconfiguration
Conversion
Merger
Relocation of grade levels, programs or classes.

19.1.1 Compensation up to 8 hours to pack

19.1.2 Compensation up to 8 hours to unpack

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