Overwhelming Majority of Outstanding SDEA Member Layoffs to Be Rescinded by Tomorrow

Thanks to SDEA and allied community members’ organizing, we’ve been able to reach an agreement with SDUSD on a side letter that will result in the rescinding of 101 of the 108 remaining educator layoff notices! The SDUSD Human Resources Department anticipates to notify all the recalled educators before the end of the day Friday.

The layoffs of educators in the following credential areas will be rescinded:

Multiple Subject

English

Physical Education

Social Science

Counseling

This agreement will maintain stability for our schools. Educators that will be recalled will retain their current assignment if they were not excessed. Those who were excessed, but recalled, will be able to participate in the Post and Bid process to find a new assignment. Here is additional information about the Post and Bid process for this summer.

Multiple subject teachers that were reappointed into ECE positions will maintain their Appendix A level of pay for the 2024-25 school year, and receive priority consideration at the end of next year.

As part of this agreement, those who are excessed and do not find an assignment through Post and Bid by the start of the school year will be placed at high needs schools as additional support. During the 2024-25 school year, members in the additional support positions may be moved a maximum of one time to a newly occurring vacancy if they are qualified to teach in that vacancy. The District may move up to 50 of the least senior unit members who are still in excess after the conclusion of the Post and Bid process on July 30 and who do not have an assignment. This was the agreement we had to reach in order to recall our fellow laid off members.

We anticipate that SDUSD will not reach this number of 50, as there are numerous positions available on Post and Bid, and more retirements are expected. The Superintendent was adamant about this additional flexibility to allow for the movement of some of these individuals to occur throughout the school year without incurring the additional cost of hiring temporary contract staff.

This Side Letter will result in the immediate rescission of the layoffs of 101 union educators! It will also keep our school communities stable for the 2024-25 school year. These incredible gains were not possible without our collective actions. Our school board rally, site based accountability sessions with laid off educators, parent leafleting and signs on the doors of our classrooms throughout the district were the organizing actions that helped move the Superintendent and School Board to reach this agreement with SDEA.

Together We Are Stronger!