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AIR DATE: August 10, 2012
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The Clark County School District has been locked in a bitter battle with the county teachers union over contract stipulations this year. Earlier this summer an arbitrator ruled the district had the money to pay for pay increases to teachers. That decision forced the district to issue more than 400 pink slips.
The Libertarian Nevada Policy Research Institute has also tried to drive a wedge between teachers and the unions by urging teachers to opt out of their union contracts. As the district struggles to keep classroom sizes from getting bigger, what role does the union play in making sure teachers are protected? We talk with Clark County Education Association President, Ruben Murillo.
Correction: The 59.37 percent graduation rate figure cited for Clark County Schools in the program is a four year cohort graduation rate. The measurement accounts for movement of all students entering high school in a given year and determines how many graduate with a regular high school diploma in four years, adjusting for the students who transfer in and out. Program Host Luis Hernandez cited this figure as the graduation rate for the 2011-2012 school year and said there was a discrepancy between the state and county figures. Clark County School District has made a preliminary estimate that the graduation rate for 2011-2012 is 65 percent. There is, in fact, no discrepancy between graduation rates calculated by the State of Nevada and the Clark County School District.
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Ruben Murillo, President, Clark County Education Association
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CCEA has a LOT in actions we will be implementing to help teachers regain their voice, morale and stand within our profession this upcoming year. More than ever, teachers need to realize that what has happened in the past with previous presidents and board of directors with CCEA are no longer. Changes have been coming in waves, but after this last year of struggles to attain a decent contract, I see that CCEA will hold back no longer because the teachers will not hold back any longer. If we UNITE, we can make BIG changes happen!
Karlana Kulseth –
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At the RA this year the assembly passed NBI 38 which deals with adminstrators' bullying teachers and other school personel. If you want to know a little more about it, send me an email and I will send you some information about it.
I am sorry for the harrasment you and your colleagues have suffered. Now your association can give you real help.
Sergio Flores –
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Interesting you say that, Sergio, because my teacher friends tried to get from CCEA and were told the union couldn't do anything about it. This happened at a school where over a third of the teachers transferred or retired because the principal was bullying them.
What you're saying sounds great, but from what I've seen and heard, it's just lip service from a union that is still viewed as very weak and unresponsive to teacher concerns.
Jacob –
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That's how I felt early on, but after several years of Holloway and Jasonek, no more.
Now I'm watching.
One thing I've realized is that the union exists by virtue of our lawmakers. The CCEA did not invent itself; it is not grassroots. The CCEA has existed whether it's good or terrible. We need a union that is real; that exists because teachers keep it existing no matter what legislators do or say.
It's a little ironic that the union is getting better as its cushy relationship with the district wanes and the district attacks it. Now the union people know a little more about how teachers have felt at least since No Child Left Behind.
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That is an excellent question that has been asked at several school board meetings.
Notice that TEACHERS and SUPPORT STAFF have taken the cuts. Higher administrators outside of our school sites have yet to step and publicly state they will take a pay cut, not has any expenditures have shown this change as well.
Karlana Kulseth –
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At the RA this year the assembly passed NBI 38 which deals with adminstrators' bullying teachers and other school personel. If you want to know a little more about it, send me an email and I will send you some information about it.
I am sorry for the harrasment you and your colleagues have suffered. Now your association can give you real help.
Sergio Flores –
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