by Matt Lavonas | Nov 19, 2020 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, The Rochester City School District is really bad with math. First, they announced a budget deficit of $199M. More recently, they are poised to “right-size” the District because they claim, we could get by with half the teachers we now have. Neither of...
by Matt Lavonas | Nov 2, 2020 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, The attached resolution was adopted by the RTA Representative Assembly at a Special Meeting earlier this evening. The intent of our resolution is to keep a premium on protecting everyone’s health while also ensuring access to excellent education for all...
by Matt Lavonas | Oct 27, 2020 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, Earlier this morning, you received from the District the communication below. Since then, teachers have contacted us seeking guidance as to whether to fill it out and whether a decision has already made about the potential transition to any in-person or...
by Matt Lavonas | Oct 22, 2020 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, The District notified us just yesterday that the scheduled retroactive pay to teachers will not be in tomorrow’s paycheck. They are now planning to have it included in the November 6 paycheck but even this won’t be confirmed until October 27th. The money...
by Matt Lavonas | Oct 14, 2020 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, Last Sunday evening you should have received RTA’s Survey on Remote Teaching and Potential Hybrid Model. Thank you to the more than 1100 teachers who have already filled out and submitted that survey. Some colleagues may have missed the survey either...
by Matt Lavonas | Oct 5, 2020 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, As we begin the fourth week of fully remote teaching and learning, here’s a brief update on some current topics: – PD on Half Days. Earlier today you received a communication from the District about this Thursday’s professional development. What the...
