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The board has officially committed to the pledge and we have secured the protections our educators deserve. This outcome validates every hour we spent fighting for a fair contract and the stability of our classrooms. We must keep our focus on the district now to ensure these promises become reality …

June 15, 2012

Educators-Ask SDEA and SDUSD leadership to take the five-point pledge to save our schools!

Educators-Ask SDEA and SDUSD leadership to take the five-point pledge to save our schools!

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Started by Breakfast Club 14 years, 3 months ago
Ask SDEA President Bill Freeman and the SDEA Board to take the Five-Point Pledge for SDEA We, the SDEA Board, pledge the following: 1. We will not open our SDEA union contract. This includes any “side deal” that would change our contractual pay or benefits. 2. We will immediately adopt and demand that the District implement the Breakfast Club Action Group’s “Three-Step Plan to No Layoffs, No Concessions”, or launch an equally viable organizing plan to win back every single one of the 1,534 laid off educators without concessions, as we have before. 3. We will hit the ground running with a democratic and aggressive bargaining campaign to secure a strong contract when this one expires at the end of next year. 4. We will halt all efforts to discourage debate within our democratic union, including changing the SDEA Bylaws to sanction members of “subversive” groups. 5. We will bring back SDEA Executive Director Craig Leedham to support our membership in achieving these goals, as he has successfully done over the past five years. ________________________________________________________ 

Ask SDUSD President John Lee Evans and the SDUSD Board to take the
Five-Point Pledge for SDUSD 


We, the SDUSD Board, pledge the following: 1. We will honor the three-year contract that we negotiated with our employees, just as we honor all other contracts we sign. 2. We will immediately adopt and implement the Breakfast Club Action Group’s “Three-Step Plan to No Layoffs, No Concessions”, and will immediately bring back every single one of the 1,534 educators we have laid off. 3. We will aggressively eliminate waste throughout our District. No school should have an Area Superintendent instead of a school library, or a nurse, or a counselor, or clean facilities, or enough people to answer the phone when it rings. 4. We will stop telling the public that our District is going insolvent. We are not going insolvent, and claiming that we are as a scare tactic does nothing but adversely impact our interest rates and make our fiscal situation worse, not better. 5. We will direct our efforts toward ensuring that the November 6 ballot initiative to adequately fund our schools passes.


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Updates

Reached 250 supporters

June 1, 2012

May 31, 2012

Seeing this level of support for our educators reminds me that we are not alone in this fight for the future of our classrooms. I am deeply moved by the way so many of you have stepped up to demand accountability from our leadership.

Reached 100 supporters

May 31, 2012

May 28, 2012

We are approaching the one hundred signature mark and the momentum is finally building for our schools. Please send this link to your colleagues right now so we can hit that goal before the day ends.

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David Fisher
14 years ago Featured

seriously, how many teachers do they have to let go before someone does something? 1,500 people is a massive loss for our students.

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Sarah Banerjee
14 years ago Featured

bring back Craig! the current leadership is running everything into the ground and we need someone who actually knows how to fight for us

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Jennifer Schmidt
14 years ago Featured

stop silencing people for having a different opinion. union means having a voice not just following the people in charge.

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Mike Gupta
14 years ago Featured

tired of the constant concessions. look at the budget, the money is there, quit playing games with our jobs.

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Elena Rodriguez
14 years ago Featured

NO MORE CUTS. stand up to the district for once and stop opening the contract every time they ask.

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Kevin Wright
14 years ago Featured

do the pledge. its time to actually start acting like a real union again.