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Board adopts teachers association initial proposal reopening compensation and health benefits for 2025–26 negotiations
Summary
The board received and adopted the initial negotiation proposal from the Palmdale Aerospace Teachers Association, which reopens compensation, health and welfare, leaves language and work year items for bargaining in 2025–26.
The Palmdale Aerospace Academy District board held a public hearing and adopted the Palmdale Aerospace Teachers Association’s initial proposal for 2025–26 negotiations, reopening several contract articles for bargaining.
The association’s bargaining chair outlined priorities that include reopening compensation (an automatic reopener), clarifying stipend rates and extra-duty pay, reopening health and welfare to reflect rising costs, revising leave language (including bereavement and reproductive-loss provisions), and updating work-year provisions for psychologists and exploring a voluntary 1/6 for secondary teachers. The chair said the aim is to maintain a competitive compensation package to recruit and retain staff.
After the public hearing, a trustee moved to adopt the association’s initial proposal and a second was recorded; the board approved the motion by voice vote. No roll-call tally was given in the meeting record.
The board did not adopt contract terms at this meeting; adoption of the association’s initial proposal sends the association’s bargaining priorities into formal negotiations between district negotiators and the teachers association.
