Dear Colleagues, By early next week, I will email you a more complete update on several salient topics such as the status of the RCSD’s budget, mid-year layoffs, mid-year displacements, negotiations for a successor contract, and the results of the recent RTA survey on potential concessions. Meanwhile, however, we have heard from some teachers asking whether we have already agreed to concessions on PD Incentive and/or Healthy Rewards.  The answer is, no. We have agreed to no concessions whatsoever. The school board’s decision to approve the Superintendent’s recommendation for implementing the disastrous mid-year cuts made any further consideration of concessions moot.  Earlier today I spoke with the RCSD’s Director of Labor-Management Relations who confirmed that the District has neither made any changes to PDI or Healthy Rewards nor that the District believes that it has the authority to do so unilaterally. The District claims the misinformation is temporary and...