Northgate Community Has a Voice for Change
Welcome to the Northgate High School Blog. The sole purpose of this blog is to gather information from parents, students, teachers, staff and administrators who would like to share ideas about improving Northgate. The blog will also provide information about MDUSD's, and Northgate's, failure to provide a quality education for our students. If you believe everything is wonderful at Northgate feel free to write that in a post but please understand that this blog is about change. No form of name calling or intimidation will be tolerated, your post will be removed. This is a serious blog for serious people who want to make a difference. Members of the school board view this site, this link can easily be sent to the Superintendent, this is your opportunity to tell them what you think needs to change at Northgate.
Negotiations - Is the offer on the table good?
Northgate's PFC website has posted a report from the District Negotiation Team regarding the current agreement between the District and MDEA regarding teacher compensation, class-size, and retirement benefits. Are the negotiations going in the right direction? Is the package on the table a good deal? With drastic state budget cuts is the current deal even viable?
Read the report here:
http://www.northgatehs-pfc.com/negonews.pdf
1 comment:
The current items agreed upon are relatively low cost. The extension from 60-63 allows teachers to retire later and will hopefully keep our teachers around a little longer. The current contract specifies that if a teacher retires by 60, they receive benefits for their spouse during retirement (up to 65). The new agreement is to extend that date to 63. So the impact, is solely the cost of the spouses benefits for a few years.
The other agreement is to allow time for the schools to balance classes at the beginning of school and avoid unnecessary grievance filings.
The district is not in a position to make an overall compensation offer. For details on the budget situation, see http://mdusd.blogspot.com (Ending Fund Balances and Reality).
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