Rena Honea, president of Alliance-AFT in Dallas, said her staff will have an "informational picket" tomorrow at Stevens Park Elementary to protest what she calls "principals and DISD unresponsiveness to scheduling grievances and to principals unprofessional behavior towards faculty and...
Alliance-AFT says it's filing a grievance against DISD because it is not renewing contracts for teachers with low CEI's. The "Classroom Effectiveness Index" was never supposed to be used to terminate teachers, Rena Honea of Alliance-AFT said this afternoon. More...
Two rallies are planned at DISD headquarters on Thursday -- right before the regular school board meeting at 5:30 p.m. The Alliance AFT teachers association is demonstrating against the district's decision to require recently RIF'd teachers and employees to reapply...
UPDATED 5:21 p.m. with NEW DOCUMENTS: The Superintendent, Denise Collier and board prez Jack Lowe paid a visit to the paper's editorial board yesterday afternoon to make their case in support of the new grading rules. The meeting lasted about...
DISD teachers and support employees are livid. DISD adminstrators have proposed eliminating longevity pay that's given to veteran teachers and freezing the salaries of support employees in the upcoming budget. Aimee Bolender, chief of Alliance AFT teacher's union, has sent...
Aimee Bolender, Alliance-AFT president, spoke out today against a new law that she calls "backdoor vouchers." She said House Bill 1 could easily affect four DISD schools in 2009-2010. The issue of having a voucher system (using taxpayer money to...
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