Tentative Agreement in Teachers Strike: Stay Tuned
Per this Slog entry about not getting ahead of ourselves, there is this Tweet from SPS:
The union members also need time to be informed and vote.
This is true; leadership may not like the deal but the members do have to vote.
From SPS Communications:
Bargaining teams from Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association have reached a tentative agreement to end the strike. Both teams worked diligently all day Monday and overnight, with a shared goal of getting the district’s 53,000 students back into 97 schools. The tentative agreement was reached just before 7 a.m. today.
Details of the agreement cannot be released at this time due to an embargo to allow the union to inform its membership about the contents of the agreement.
District staff are working persistently in attempt to start school on Thursday. As previously mentioned, because of the length of the strike and many logistics involved, getting class started might not happen immediately.
Updates will be provided as they become available.
From KPLU:
Agreement finished after 7 a.m
The District says school will open on Thursday at the earliest, citing transportation and food issues. My question is: weren't they ready on day one to go? Why should students and teachers miss another whole day? I'm sure there are logistics but if I had a strike stretching on, I'd be primed to go when I could.
The union members also need time to be informed and vote.
This is true; leadership may not like the deal but the members do have to vote.
From SPS Communications:
Bargaining teams from Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association have reached a tentative agreement to end the strike. Both teams worked diligently all day Monday and overnight, with a shared goal of getting the district’s 53,000 students back into 97 schools. The tentative agreement was reached just before 7 a.m. today.
Details of the agreement cannot be released at this time due to an embargo to allow the union to inform its membership about the contents of the agreement.
District staff are working persistently in attempt to start school on Thursday. As previously mentioned, because of the length of the strike and many logistics involved, getting class started might not happen immediately.
Updates will be provided as they become available.
From KPLU:
Agreement finished after 7 a.m
The District says school will open on Thursday at the earliest, citing transportation and food issues. My question is: weren't they ready on day one to go? Why should students and teachers miss another whole day? I'm sure there are logistics but if I had a strike stretching on, I'd be primed to go when I could.
Comments
--Eager4School
reader47
We don't know which side the delay is coming from, though.
-sleeper
reader47
- On the Bus
Teacher parent
The drivers did in fact do just that the last week of August in prep for school starting. They do this every year actually -it's called "dry run". But there are always going to be variables when you throw kids into the mix - it's just inevitable there will be a few snafus.
reader47
R Parent
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/09/15/22861535/hold-up-the-school-strike-is-not-over
North End Parent
That's not even taking into account the parents who had to massively reschedule their family to accommodate the strike. I know of at least one kid who was sent out of town to stay with relatives while his parents worked, because their schedules are not 9-5 and the free community center options didn't work for them. Not everyone can just charge over to the schools tomorrow.
But it seems like the district can't win. If they'd announced the start of school tomorrow, people would be whining that they weren't given enough time.
I'm just glad we're going to be back in school.
Yay?
2) Surely a Seattle group would be outraged at buses wasting fuel, carbon footprint, traffic, and resources if they'd made "extra" runs.
West Seattle Dad
In the meantime, we're not waiting on ratification, we're waiting on RA approval so strike can be suspended.
Hoping...
KOMO: 206-404-4145
KING: 206-448-5555
KIRO: (206) 728-7777
SEA has reached a tentative agreement (TA) with the district, BUT THIS DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN THAT SCHOOL WILL START THURSDAY as the district is saying and some media outlets are repeating. Both the SEA Board, and the representative assembly are meeting today to review the TA and decide on whether to call off the strike. The SEA membership also has to vote to approve or reject the TA.
The district has very deliberately pushed the Thursday school start day to pressure SEA members, and to try and turn parents against the SEA if they decide to continue the strike. Please spread this message and contact KOMO, KIRO and KING to ask for a correction to their news pieces.
-Cut and Paste Thief