The agreement is provisional, subject to a vote by the members of the UTLA and the USD School Board. August 7-11: Locals hold meetings to discuss the agreement. Maintain the necessary concrete and enforceable COVID protocols of the current agreement. LAUSD is a large and complicated district that needs enough planning time to prepare for the return to school, and the agreement requires educators to have access to vaccinations with the time needed for both vaccinations and the time needed for full effectiveness. At that time, the district tentatively plans a physical return in mid-April for TK-6 and a physical return from late April to early May for students in grades 7 to 12. "First of all, the agreement recognizes that COVID-19 is still very much present," said UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz. "The agreement fulfills our critical goal of expanding COVID safety measures to multiple levels – including regular testing, masking and quality air filtration – to ensure the safety and openness of our schools, and we have received a new quarantine checklist that provides clarity and consistency across the district on how the LAUSD is responding to COVID cases. Health and safety must come first to protect everyone who walks through the doors of our classrooms and workspaces. Some of the key elements of the Tentative Agreement include: Voting on the Tentative Agreement began today, and when I voted, I am so proud to be in a riding where you are all members who make our union so strong. The adoption of this agreement this week sends a clear message that we will protect ourselves, our teachers, our students and the thousands of people who come into contact with all of us every day. We have entered into a separate agreement requiring school nurses to provide physical services as part of the screening program and in the schools assigned to them as of January 11, with a special bursary for this work. Our agreement with LAUSD to return to traditional education for the 2021-2022 school year maintains concrete and enforceable COVID protocols that have made students, staff, families and the educational community safer during the last school year.
The agreement, which was approved by UTLA members in June, includes: Under the agreement reached in December to extend the terms of the parallel letter on distance learning, the parties are required to reach agreement on these "plans" by January 24, 2021. This does not mean that such plans would be implemented by agreement. The timing is determined by health and safety factors, and with the deadly virus outbreak underway in Los Angeles County, it probably wouldn`t be safe anytime soon. UTLA and LAUSD have not yet reached an agreement on distance learning for the start of the 2020-21 school year, but significant progress has been made. If ratified, the provisional agreement will expire at the end of the current school year. Unless expressly stated in the new agreement, all provisions of the side letter for the physical reopening of schools for hybrid education would apply to the working conditions of the members of the side letter. August 3: Members of the UTLA negotiating team will review the deal at Facebook Live at 1 p.m. .m. The video will also be available for viewing later. Given the acceleration of the covid-19 wave, our current objective in the negotiations is to extend the 2020-2021 remote newsletter for the second half of the year. The current agreement expires on 31 December and our aim is to ensure stability. An extension may include some minor changes to teachers` daily schedules, with increased office hours to communicate with students and families and additional synchronous class minutes on Mondays, but we urge that these changes occur within the current 360-minute workday for teachers and that the rest of the agreement remains intact.
In the face of the upheavals we are all facing, educators, students and families need stability. "This agreement is what we need in this time of crisis to strengthen teaching and learning and expand the social-emotional support our students need," said UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz. "Distance learning in crisis situations is not ideal, but it is a temporary and necessary solution to keep our communities safe. We have been in a global pandemic for five months that has exacerbated the racial and social inequalities that afflict our society. Our political and economic leaders must seriously empower our schools to reopen safely and give our communities the safety net they need to survive the devastation of this pandemic. The Agreement-in-Principle is an asset in times of uncertainty that protects health and safety, strengthens distance learning and expands support for students. Learn more about the specific terms in our TA video series with UTLA`s negotiating team on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. In accordance with our secondary agreement for the second semester, we are negotiating a plan with the district to provide targeted services to groups of students in need. UTLA and LAUSD reach preliminary agreement on distance learning "We are pleased to reach an agreement on extending the cover letter, which is what our students need right now," said UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz. "Given the upheavals we are all facing, educators, students and families need stability first and foremost, and our bargaining team has worked 24/7 to address this need." "Today`s preliminary agreement paves the way for our broader contract campaign," Myart-Cruz said. "Full collective bargaining is when we, as a union, can put forward all the proposals we are ready and willing to fight for.
The time has come to organize ourselves deeply and fight for a proactive vision of public education. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have prioritized the health and safety of our students, families and communities during the school campus closure. .
