AVP Report of Substitute Teachers for Meeting of September 15, 2010
What has been happening since the last Executive Board Meeting of August 24, 2010?
SAN BERNARDINO: On Thursday, August 26th, the Working Committee consisting of Richelle Capozio, Marian Iskander, and Ron Fletcher met with Dr. Harold Volkommer and staff to discuss the change in what constitute a half day. Presently a half day is anything less than three hours and fifty-nine minutes. CWA is asking for a half day to be anything less than three hours and twenty-nine minutes. A report was submitted that listed substitutes that had worked exactly four hours. Of the one hundred and twenty-one substitutes a random review showed that all had been paid for a full day. At the next meeting on November 18th, a report will be submitted showing what the change would cost the San Bernardino School District.
A committee is being formed to study the unemployment question for substitutes. Why do some qualify and others do not? Preliminary findings point to how the forms were filled out. Also, the appeals process may put one with a judge that does not understand the difference between a letter of assurance and available work.
Ron Fletcher has been invited to sit on a Customer Service Committee which is staffed by a large number of movers and shakers in the SBCUSD. This will give CWA a chance to further educate members of SBCUSD on the value of substitutes.
RIALTO: The Rialto School District invited Suzanne and Ron to a two day Leadership Training Seminar July 21st and 22nd. Because of our participation in this seminar a space on two committees has been reserved for CWA. One committee is called a Stakeholders and meets quarterly , while the other committee will be held monthly and include the department heads of the Rialto School District and is called Extended Cabinet Meeting.
FONTANA: Phone banking for substitute signatures will begin Wednesday evening of September 15, 2010. Eight substitutes have signed up to man the phones Monday evening thru Thursday evening until November the 2nd. They will combine requests to sign up for union representation and to support our candidate for the Fontana school board.
Monthly Meeting: At our September meeting on the 14th, Mitch Ambrosio was to speak on his July 29th 24 hour round trip for Arizona immigration and his experiences with taking the CSET Exam. This was delayed due to we had two substitutes join us who had trouble and the evening was spent in helping them. Letters were typed that were delivered to Elaine Alexandres the morning of September 15, 2010. Elaine will review the matters and let us know. The other substitute was upset because as a fully credentialed teacher the District did not interview her when they hired new teachers to fill the empty slots created by so many teachers retiring early. A response will be made to the SBCUSD School Board at its next meeting on September 21st. Suggestions for the SBCUSD training were made with the request of Sexual Harassment and Child Abuse Reporting being chosen.
The substitute’s web site reran articles on unemployment and food stamps. Mr. C has put several things that may be of interest to subs on http://substitutebuzzon-line.blogspot.com/ . It has a link to the CWA site. Mr. C is working to keep it upgraded.
