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Bargaining teams push for clearer discipline procedures, protected planning time and training for support staff
Summary
Negotiators discussed adding protections for teachers' uninterrupted planning time during student contact hours, improving training and reporting pathways for support staff who supervise students, and clarifying teacher access to disciplinary records and the statutory process for requesting a student's removal from a class.
A large portion of the session focused on working conditions for both instructional and support personnel, with negotiators addressing planning time, observations versus evaluations, test administration training, and student‑discipline procedures.
Planning time: Instructional negotiators proposed guaranteeing a minimum of weekly planning minutes during student contact time and preserving a portion of that time for uninterrupted, self‑directed planning. In the draft language shown to the table negotiators asked for preservation of 120 minutes of a 150‑minute weekly planning allotment for self‑directed work during student contact time; participants noted that the proposal will be a difficult lift and asked for…
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