Health and Safety

Colleagues, Yesterday we asked RTA Faculty Representatives to provide us information about the conditions at our schools during the initial days of return to in-person learning while the District was unprepared to keep students and teachers safe. Many have responded...

Colleagues, I hope you had a good holiday break and wish you a healthy and happy new year. During the recess, we have reached out to the Superintendent to inquire about the District's plan for resuming instruction and to urge her to communicate to teachers about the...

Colleagues, Here’s a brief update: - Preparing For Tough Negotiations Ahead. While our current contract does not expire until June 30, 2022, the District is already signaling that they will seek to “right-size” the District at the expense of students and their...

Colleagues, Based on the results of teachers’ responses to a recent survey, the RTA Representative Assembly earlier today affirmed the teachers’ overwhelming expression (93%) of no confidence in the District’s and Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small’s response and...

Colleagues, Superintendent Myers-Small just proposed to the Board of Education that some schools be closed, some relocated and some merged with other schools. She also proposed changes to grade configuration that would result in a return to separate large Middle...

Colleagues, For the last several weeks, we have been trying to get the District to enact measures that would reduce disruption and violence in our schools. In response, the District has lashed out against teachers and offered empty rhetoric instead of any real action...