SDEA WINS NEW AGREEMENT

Tentative Agreement Reached on Wages, Staffing, and Special Education

Tentative Agreements Achieve Goals Set by Thousands of SDEA Members Through Bargaining Input Sessions and Will Result in Significant Investment in Teaching and Learning Conditions for 2021-2022 and Beyond

Our SDEA Bargaining Platform laid out a clear path to improving the conditions of teaching and learning by calling on SDUSD to direct considerable resources to our classrooms where they are needed most. As we returned to the bargaining table at the end of this school year, your bargaining team worked hard to transform the SDEA bargaining platform into a reality beginning this fall. These improvements serve as a major down payment on larger and long term improvements we can make once we return to the bargaining table next school year and as we organize with educators across the state to demand permanent public education funding increases.

These tentative agreements were won because we have all worked hard to build a strong union with active members at every site and program, and will result in meaningful improvements to our schools and classrooms starting this fall.

Below you will find highlights of what we’ve won as well as the full tentative agreements.

Please take the time to carefully review this update and stay tuned for announcements on upcoming informational meetings as well as the timeline and process for our ratification vote.

TA Highlights:

Tentative Agreements

Note: All new language contained in Articles 7, 12, 13, 29 & 36 is bolded and underlined. Language removed is struck.

• Article 7: Wages (6/24/2021)
• Article 12: Transfer (6/21/2021)
• Article 13: Class Size (6/24/2021)
• Article 29: Special Education (6/24/2021)
• Article 36: Effect of the Agreement (6/24/2021)
• New Hire Incentive (6/24/2021)
• Virtual Academy (6/21/2021)
• Safety (6/17/2021)

Summary of Next Steps and Ratification Process

Information sessions for SDEA ARs and CRs are being scheduled for next week so that each site and program will have the opportunity to hold a virtual informational meeting prior to ratification. Please reserve questions until those materials are sent out and your AR has had the opportunity to attend an informational meeting. There is a lot of information in this package of agreements and we will have the time to go through it all together.

For sites that do not have a union representative and for members who are unable to attend their site/program meeting, there will be an informational webinar scheduled prior to our ratification vote. Voting will take place July 9 through July 16.

Together We Are Stronger!

SDEA Bargaining Team: Kyle Weinberg, Ed. Specialist/History Teacher/SDEA Vice President, Teri Ang, Drama Teacher, Mann MS; Rickeena Boyd-Kamei, Home/Hospital Teacher; Stacy Hernandez, 2nd Grade Teacher, Dailard El.; Sarah Darr, SLP, Millennial Tech MS & Scripps Ranch HS; Jared Enyart, Education Specialist, Mission Bay HS; Mary Gantz, Nurse; Eri Nall, Counselor; Ron Reese, Math Teacher, Henry HS; plus SDEA staff Abdul Sayid, Executive Director, and Sara Holerud and Jonathon Mello, SDEA Organizers