by Matt Lavonas | Oct 10, 2022 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, Hope you had a restful weekend. Here’s a brief update on negotiations and a few timely reminders: – Negotiations. Bargaining for a successor contract is still in the mediation stage and is assisted by the NYS Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)....
by Matt Lavonas | Aug 2, 2022 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, This brief interruption of your summer recess is to update you about our ongoing efforts to secure a fair successor contract for teachers and substitute teachers in our District. After a lengthy period of unproductive bargaining, we declared an impasse in...
by Matt Lavonas | May 19, 2022 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, First and foremost, I wish to acknowledge the sorrow and outrage that we all feel about the recent senseless and racist murder of innocent people in Buffalo. We began last Tuesday’s meeting of the RTA Representative Assembly with a moment of silence and a...
by Matt Lavonas | May 10, 2022 | Adam's Updates
“At the April 13 meeting of the RCSD Board of Education, board president Cynthia Elliott characterized Rochester teachers in a vulgar and demeaning way. She also blamed Rochester teachers for the increase of crime on our streets. Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small...
by Matt Lavonas | Apr 27, 2022 | Adam's Updates
Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small, At the April 13 meeting of the RCSD’s Board of Education <https://youtu.be/cFlJ6f5XKLc>, Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and Learning Kathleen Black falsely alleged that half of all RCSD’s teachers do not prepare...
