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Farmersville teachers press district for response to FTA ‘sunshine,’ read resignation citing behavior, support and pay issues
Summary
At the June 24 Farmersville Unified School District board meeting, Farmersville Teachers Association president Nora Allstead read a resignation letter from a departing teacher and urged the district to respond to a May bargaining ‘sunshine’ notice, citing classroom behavior problems, lack of administrative support and concerns about compensation.
At the June 24 meeting of the Farmersville Unified School District Board of Trustees, Nora Allstead, president of the Farmersville Teachers Association and an elementary music teacher at Snowden Elementary, told the board the union filed a “sunshine” bargaining notice in May and said it is still waiting for a district response. “From FTA’s perspective, we would rather get started sooner rather than later so that any potential increases in salary or those kind of things that you’re not paying big retro checks,” Allstead said.
Allstead read a resignation…
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