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District, teachers' association discuss adding daily collaboration time; proposal seeks 60 minutes, $4.5M cost
Summary
Negotiators discussed a proposal to add daily collaborative/instructional minutes to teachers' duty day — up to 60 minutes per day — with an estimated annual cost of about $4.5 million. Funding sources, schedule impacts and bargaining tradeoffs remain unresolved; parties agreed to continue talks and to share proposals ahead of the next session.
Negotiators for the school district and the teachers' association spent the meeting discussing a proposal to add daily collaboration or instructional minutes to the teacher duty day, including a scenario that would add 60 minutes per day and carry an estimated annual price tag of about $4,500,000.
The proposal presented to the group described adding collaboration time at every level and outlined cost estimates tied to adding 20 or 60 minutes daily. "If you go to the next thing down, it says this proposal is seeking 60 minutes," a district participant said. The document attached to the proposal listed a $4,500,000 annual cost for the 60‑minute scenario and noted the district had identified at‑risk funds as one possible source.
Why it matters: adding time to the duty day would change teachers' schedules, require bargaining over compensation or contract language, and could entail broader changes to the school calendar or daily schedule. District staff said the plan was not intended to be contingent on at‑risk funds alone and that, if those funds…
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