VTA Members, Are you interested in representing Vacaville teachers on the national level? Would you like to see first hand how issues in education across the country are addressed through the democratic process of the National Education Association- Representative Assembly (NEA-RA)? Then get on the ballot to be a local delegate for the NEA-RA. This …
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Feb 13
Bargaining report
VTA will sunshine articles for the 13-14 contract on march 21st at the school board meeting. Your bargaining team is hard at work developing language to propose to the district.
Feb 13
Retiring This Year?
1. Early notification forms must be turned in to the Human Resources department by February 15 to be eligible for the $1,000 payment agreed to by VTA and the VUSD. 2. You should notify CalSTRS as soon as possible. It takes them two to three months to process the paperwork. If you wait to long, …
Feb 13
Don’t forget to reinstate your Disability Insurance after leave of absence
A lot of CTA members assume that their voluntary Disability Insurance coverage from Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) will be automatically reinstated when they return to work from an extended leave of absence. Unfortunately, that may not be the case. Because your Disability Insurance is a voluntary benefit sponsored by CTA, your district may not …
Feb 13
Education miracles that aren’t
In seeking reform models, L.A. Unified should be cautious about untested solutions. February 6, 2013 Beware of education miracles. Too often, there’s less there than meets the eye. Remember the extraordinary gains in test scores and lowered dropout rates in Houston schools more than a decade ago? They became the model for the federal No …
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