12/30/2023 0 Comments Columbus ohio news school![]() The Ohio Education Association said more than 94% of the Columbus Education Association members voted to reject the school board’s final offer late Sunday. The school district and teachers "should be able to come together," she said. ![]() "What they’re asking is reasonable," Tweneboagh said. While she’s worried about the strike continuing and affecting things like college scholarships and her grades, she said, her teachers shouldn’t be backing down. She said it’s strange to start off with another disrupted school year, especially since she "hasn’t had a normal school year" through high school. "We offered a generous compensation package for teachers and provisions that would have a positive impact on classrooms," the board said in a statement.Įva Tweneboagh, a senior at Whetstone High School, picketed alongside her teachers, her friends and friends’ parents on the sunny Wednesday morning. The school board said its offer to the union put children first. It ended with a new contract that gave teachers pay raises for the next three years and guaranteed that student learning areas would be climate controlled.Ĭoneglio mentioned the leadership of interim Superintendent Angela Chapman as he said, “I believe we have started to turn the corner from our recent strike and move towards better communication and cooperation, where possible, to move the district forward.The school district and the union resumed bargaining Wednesday afternoon. Just last year the board and the CEA found themselves at odds over negotiations, leading to a three-day teacher strike in August, which was the first in the district since 1975. CEA spokesperson Regina Fuentes said on Monday that at least one board member has given her support, though others remained uncertain. Still, the board has yet to formally acknowledge the substitutes. “You are essential members of the team, and we look forward to beginning this process with you.”Ī statement from CCS said the district and the board believe in the power of collective bargaining and unions. “The board wants to thank you for your service,” Adair said. They were met with applause from the audience and several members of the board. The CCS Board of Education seems willing to cooperate, as Board President Jennifer Adair indicated at the April 4 meeting, when the board had only just learned of the substitutes' request.Īdair asked building substitutes in attendance at the meeting to raise their hands. Substitutes would join the 4,500 librarians, nurses, counselors and psychologists already represented by the CEA. “Our intent, consistent with state law, is to be at the table as soon as possible to bargain an interim working agreement for the building substitutes and then bring them into the master agreement with our next round of negotiations in 2025,” Coneglio said. The board and union negotiated their first contract in November.ĬEA President John Coneglio said the substitutes' efforts to unionize follow the same process. The school board voluntarily recognized the group and Ohio Association of Public School Employees Local 581 was born. Last year, the district’s safety and security employees unionized. Ilona Wilson, substitute teacher at Hubbard Elementary School ![]() She said that substitutes expect better pay and the basic benefits given to other workers in the district. “I also abhor the general sense that building subs are glorified assistants rather than the full-time teachers we are often called upon to be,” Wilson said. Wilson added that substitutes aren’t treated with the same respect. Kim Maupin, a current building substitute at Southwood Elementary and retired district teacher said that substitutes have been doing the work of teachers, from lesson planning and grading to conferencing with parents, but without the same support from the district. They don't get the same benefits as full-time teachers, substitutes have said. The substitutes are each assigned to one of CCS' roughly 110 schools, working five days a week and filling in during short- and long-term teacher absences. “We are here tonight to formally request recognition of our union as part of the Columbus Education Association.”Ĭolumbus City Schools' Board of Education has not officially acknowledged the substitutes’ unionization, but could do so at its meeting Tuesday evening.Ī supermajority of the district’s nearly 300 building substitutes filed authorization cards with the State Employment Relations Board earlier this month, marking another post-pandemic unionization effort in the city. Iona Wilson, a building substitute at Hubbard Elementary School, wore a sticker that read “I am the CEA” as she walked up to the podium at the Columbus City Schools' Board of Education meeting. ![]()
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