Health and Safety

Colleagues, As you prepare for some badly needed time off during the Spring break, here is a very brief update on just two current issues: - Negotiations. We’re off to a not-so-promising start to bargaining for a successor contract. Among many other unacceptable...

Colleagues, Here’s a brief update on some current issues: - RCSD Budget. The District’s managers are experiencing difficulties producing a credible and transparent budget for the upcoming year. Despite significant increases in State and Federal revenues, and a fund...

Colleagues,Here’s a brief update and some timely reminders: -Negotiations. Thank you to the hundreds of teachers who responded to our survey on bargaining priorities. We also received helpful suggestions from department zoom forums conducted by members of the RTA...

Colleagues, Teachers know that the best way for students to learn is in-person, not remote - but only when it is safe to do so and certainly not at the peak of the highly contagious Omicron variant. That is why the District’s most recent (in)decision to have 29...

Colleagues, We are receiving indications from teachers (FB, Twitter, emails) that at their schools there is no heat, no cleaning, no disinfecting, etc. If you are aware of these or related conditions at your school, please email Martha Keating <maskerade6@aol.com>...