AFT-W President Kim Kohlhaas on Assembly and Senate Budget

For Immediate Release: 
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 
 
Madison, WI – Today the State Senate voted to pass a budget bill, a day after the Assembly passed its budget. AFT-Wisconsin President Kim Kohlhaas responded to the legislature’s work as follows:
 
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JFT Update: June 28th

Collective Bargaining Update

 
A big thank you to those who provided input on the collective bargaining survey, sent prior to the start of negotiations. Your responses were critical in directing the bargaining conversation.
 
As reported in the last update, the issues ranked in order of importance were: Evaluations, Class Size, Curriculum, Testing, Lesson Plans, Professional Development, and Duty.
 
Negotiations have been productive, with each party listening in good faith. Talks are, ongoing, therefore, it is necessary to extend the current agreement until negotiations are complete. A special session board meeting will be held on June 29, 2021 at 9am to vote on extending the collective bargaining agreement until Friday, July 30, 2021. Following that extension, we are looking forward to continuing negotiations around the priorities that have been set by you, the members of JFT.
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Feature a Teacher

Feature a Teacher: COMING SOON!

In this space we would like to feature a teacher each month. Someone that YOU feel deserves some recognition and appreciation for the hard work they do each day. You can submit your Feature a Teacher to Terri Benson!

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Jerry Jordan to PFT Members: This year's budget is a "woefully inadequate failure."

6-26-21

This afternoon, PFT President Jerry Jordan shared the following with PFT members:

Dear PFT Members,

Our fight for fair and equitable education funding continues. And this year's budget, finished by the State Legislature last evening, did very little to get us there. It was a woefully inadequate budget that, amidst a $10B surplus in the state's coffers, passed up this potentially once in a lifetime opportunity to make serious investment in public education.

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Legislative Memo: Opposition to School Code

To: Members of the PA State Senate

From: Jerry Jordan

Re: OPPOSITION TO SCHOOL CODE (SB381)

 

The PFT is deeply disappointed and concerned about the myriad failures in the current school code bill (SB381 A02135). This bill is, quite simply, shameful. 

 

It’s shameful in what it does, and it is shameful in what it does not do.

 

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