KCEA asks board to start collaborative conferencing process under PECCA

Daria Turner, president of the Knox County Education Association, asked the Knox County Board of Education to accept petitions for collaborative conferencing under the Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act of 2011 and to appoint a special question committee of equal board and professional-employee members to administer a confidential poll. "Pursuant to the terms of the Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act of 2011, PECCA, the Knox County Education Association is requesting to continue in collaborative conferencing with the Knox County Board of Education upon submission of 15% or more, emphasis on the more, of the professional employees in the in a LEA between October 1 and November 1 of any year," Turner told the board.