Announcements
YCTA will begin negotiations with YCUSD on February 17. Our bargaining team needs your input. Please complete your needs assessment and return them to YCTA before Wed. Feb 10.
YCUSD shall consider options for budget cuts. The YCUSD Budget Priorities Committee will meet Tuesday Feb 9 at 4PM prior to the regular YCUSD Board meeting at 7PM. We can expect all the options to be discussed.Check here to review the District’s powerpoint with the proposed cuts. You will need to scroll to the end to see the $8.2 million in proposed cuts.
How does YCUSD compare to other Districts?Click here for a summary of our area. The Sacramento Bee has compiled a comparison of average salaries. “Average salaries are often a reflection of three things: An area's cost of living, how much the district is willing to pay and the number of experienced teachers the district employs. If your district is low on these lists but it has a high maximum salary, it probably means it has a lot of teachers fresh out of college. Summary tables exclude districts with fewer than 100 teachers. Roughly 15 percent of districts -- most of them very small -- did not report data to the state and have nothing in their data fields. Source: 2008-09 Certificated Salary Data, California Department of Education.” Sac Bee article – source of the data
YCTA members can share their reactions to budget cuts and the potential impacts by logging in to the members only section. There is a special topic: Budget Cuts, Negotiations and Lay Offs. Keep watching for more updates from YCTA. We will be asking for more input from you and share more information as things progress.
DO YOU KNOW YOU CAN ACCESS THE REP COUNCIL AGENDA AT YCTA.NET? You need your member log-in to access this members-only portion. The agenda will be posted by Thursday night. If you do not have your user name and password, you may get yours by emailing Josh Roberts at jroberts@ycusd.k12.ca.us.
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