There are 19 article(s) tagged Memphis-Shelby County Education Association:
A complaint renewed allegations of “double dipping” for Keith Williams, who serves as a school board member and the executive director of the organization that filed the grievance.
Keith Williams, who represents District 6, also serves as executive director of the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association, the oldest of the district’s two teacher unions.
Under current district policy, employees are allotted three paid days off when a loved one dies but must use personal sick days.
The push for a new memorandum of understanding from the association comes as the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association, the district’s other union, has been clashing with the board over its own MOU.
The lawsuit was filed in August by one of the district’s two teacher unions, the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association.
In a lawsuit filed last month, the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association said teachers were asked, even “threatened,” to sign contracts without job descriptions or salary amounts.
The two teachers’ unions in Memphis used to be one. But a battle over local control caused them to split.
SCS teachers are preparing to be joined in their classrooms by students for the first time in nearly a year.
SCS is requiring all in-school personnel to report to their school buildings, health concerns notwithstanding.
SCS students won’t go back to school on Feb. 8.
Parents have made decisions about their children’s education for the new year, but a lot of the logistics are still up in the air. Related article: Tennessee school districts share staffing concerns
Thirty-two percent of SCS students are expected to be in the classrooms when school starts in January, compared with only 17% of SCS teachers, who will mostly be working from home. Some say schools shouldn’t open at all.
There could be a shortage of teachers and monitors in January if survey results reflect what association leaders are hearing.
Students will still use laptops, tablets and headphones for in-school learning, in the same way they are learning in virtual school.
Though Superintendent Joris Ray decided to exclude union leadership to “give other people an opportunity to lead too,” at least 10 schools voted for a union leader to represent them on the council anyway.
Superintendent Joris Ray said the district’s promise to allocate a 3% pay increase to all teachers and licensed school professionals in the Memphis district will go into effect next month and be retroactive to the beginning of the school year.
In 2014, teacher salaries in the Memphis district were sixth highest in the state, but three years later, teacher pay in Shelby County Schools has slipped to 11th. It was one of only two districts statewide to see the average salary decrease.
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