Holyoke – The Holyoke Teachers Association has a demonstration scheduled before the fifth negotiation session with the school officials on Thursday, as the disagreements were perched on state supervision controls and local decision -making.
The rally Will start at 15:30 To Holyoke High School.
It is part of a continuous push to get the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education of the State rescinds or modify its “output insurance”, the controls that the State has launched since its over -decades in the district that was once.
“We have contacted the Tutwiler Secretary (Patrick) for a meeting and we have not yet received a response to the first calendar,” said Union President Nick Cream.
Due to his outstanding contract and the state control measures, the Union of Teachers carried out tours throughout the district last week. CREAM said that the series of protests on May day was well assisted, with great energy.
Even with the state reception, the results of the students have diminished, said Peter Duffy, a Sullivan teacher, on a crowd on Thursday.
“It has been a failure,” said Duffy. “Our best teachers are leaving and our new teachers work for one or two years, and they are also leaving, and this is not good for students.”
On Monday, Tutwiler, the Secretary of Education and the temporary curator, announced modifications to the Holyoke departure plan since the reception, designed to facilitate a good transition to the local government.
Despite these changes, the Association of Teachers stated its dissatisfaction, emphasizing that the restoration of collective bargaining rights, essential for retaining qualified educators, was not included.
Duffy said that, along with the receiver and superintendent Anthony Soto, and the President of the Mayor and the Holyoke School Committee, Joshua Garcia, decided to preserve the most problematic aspects of the reception: how much money teachers make, such as school day, what is the calendar and where a teacher works.
“They can say -you tomorrow,” Hi, sorry, you will work in the new middle school. Have fun -te. “This is not good for our students,” Duffy told the crowd. “We are here to say that we want to change things. We are not well with the status quo and, when we get together, we can change things. We want a contract that is from the people of Holyoke for the people of Holyoke.”
Soto and Garcia were not available for comments.