Albemarle Education Association

Let's do this! 🗳✅

It's a beautiful day to wear RED!

Forgot to wear red? Find your rep and pick up some red flair to pin to your outfit.

Happy Labor Day! ✊

Good morning, educators! Week two - Your to-do list for today includes joining the movement that hundreds of your colleagues are already a part of. Go to www.tinyurl.com/jointheaea to JOIN THE MOVEMENT! ✊

GOOD MORNING, EDUCATORS! let's make the first day of preservice an excellent one.

Day 1, Task 1 - learn who your AEA Building Representative is.

Sorry (to the early education teachers) for getting this song in your head already 😆

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Our new educators are READY to be changemakers!🔥 We had an AMAZING time at the ACPS New Teacher Academy signing up educators and racked up over 43 new members in ONE DAY! A new one day record for us! 🥇

Educators, both newbies and veterans, are fired up for this new school year - the FIRST EVER in Albemarle in which a negotiated contract is FINALLY on the horizon! ✊

Are you going to the Summer Organizing Institute? Let us know!

Our own Mary McIntyre and Tim Klobuchar (incoming Pres and VP) will be participating in one of the panels at this event.

Any member who registers will have hotels and meals covered by the VEA - it's one of the perks your dues pay for!

Smashing expectations is our thing! Our reps and organizers collected cards from MORE employees than last time around in LESS time - ACPS Staff is READY FOR BARGAINING! 💪

Tonight's school board work session is underway! Tune in to public comment to follow important developments in our collective bargaining process.

The cards continue to roll in - congratulations to the first elementary school to gather authorization cards from 100% of its licensed staff!👏👏👏

In case you missed it... Albemarle County School employees now have the right to bargain - and we intend to exercise it!

Catch up on coverage from our local media outlet:

Albemarle County teachers win collective bargaining rights Members of the union consider the resolution to be “one of the strongest in the state."

Congratulations to one of our elementary schools and its hard-working AEA Rep for being the first ACPS school to achieve having 100% of its Classified Staff sign collective bargaining cards! Employees are excited for bargaining!

We did it!

Collective bargaining is now a real possibility for our schools. Onward-to signatures, elections, and a bright future.

Don't miss this moment...

Collective bargaining is coming...

Thursday, April 11 at 6 pm - will you be there?

It's no April Fool's joke - this will be a historic night for Albemarle!

Advocate - then CELEBRATE! Come witness a historic night for Albemarle!

The announcement we've been wanting to make for YEARS! Collective Bargaining is coming to Albemarle County! 🎉✊

Tune in to the School Board's Budget Work Session tonight starting at 6:30 PM. Agenda is here: https://esb.k12albemarle.org/com/agenda_list.aspx

Two items of note:
- Superintendent's Presentation of the Draft Funding Request
- Superintendent's Recommendation for the 23/24 Redistricting Study: Schools affected are Stone Robinson, Stony Point, Baker Butler, Hollymead, Agnor Hurt and Woodbrook

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You look good in red. ❤️

Tune in to the School Board Meeting tonight, January 25 at 6:30 PM.

Agenda here: https://esb.k12albemarle.org/public_agendaview.aspx?mtgId=888&CS=No

Items of note:
- Board will be voting on next year's academic calendar
- More discussion of Center II design
- Lots of time devoted to Budget information (over an hour and a half)

Public Agenda

Happening right now is the first Albemarle County School Board meeting of the New Year. Along with the new year come new board members and a new opportunity for the School Board to finally do right by its school staff and Get. Collective. Bargaining. Done.

We are sharing with you the letter we shared with the School Board about the status of negotiations and our hopes for a productive process going forward. Let's have 2024 be the year we improve teacher retention, value our support staff more fairly, and recognize the labor rights of our employees - let's move FORWARD toward collective bargaining.

Tune into the School Board Meeting tonight at 6:30 PM.

The agenda for tonight's meeting can be found here: https://esb.k12albemarle.org/public_agendaview.aspx?mtgId=876&CS=No

Items of Note:
- ELA adoption
- Introduction of the recommended calendar by the calendar committee and discussion: "After careful review, the committee does not recommend an early start for next school year and will not pursue a two-year calendar adoption. The committee has recommended a calendar option for the 2024-2025 school year (attached) and will like the School Board to advise on their willingness to move to an earlier start date in the 2025-2026 school year."
- Schematic design presentation for the planned Center II
- Update on engineering and budget for planned new elementary school in the Southern Feeder Pattern

Public Agenda

✨New Year's Resolutions? Join the movement. Be a part of the change. Look fabulous doing it.

Tune in to the school board meeting tonight (public meeting begins at 6:30) to hear who the new Rio District School Board member will be! This member will be appointed by the board to fill the vacancy created when Callsen left.

Other agenda items of note:

- Annual report of the Special Education Advisory Committee - these members (families, community members, teachers) have been working hard to push the Division to DO BETTER when it comes to our students with disabilities.

- More discussion and action on the proposed 7+1 schedule for high schools.

Agenda here:

Public Agenda

We know things have been quiet around collective bargaining, but that doesn't mean we aren't working hard in meetings with the School Board to get our staff the strong, fair resolution they deserve.

C-Ville Weekly recently covered our ongoing talks with the School Board, which were only re-started after our courageous staff spoke out about the importance of fair bargaining before the School Board.

Check it out here: https://www.c-ville.com/deal-or-no-deal

We are hopeful with new School Board members and new legal counsel starting their service this winter, we will continue to make progress toward achieving collective bargaining - which is LONG overdue. Stay tuned and stay with us. 👊

Deal or no deal By Sofia Heartney The Albemarle Education Association, the union for Albemarle County teachers and staff, has been negotiating for a collective bargaining agreement with the school board since...