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Teachers and support staff urge full funding of 10.5% raise and demand apology over district email
Summary
Dozens of teachers, instructional assistants and parents urged the city to fund a 10.5% raise for support professionals and criticized the district's Friday email that commenters said blamed the union and harmed morale.
Multiple teachers, instructional assistants and parents used the public-comment period at the joint Charlottesville City School Board and City Council meeting to urge council to fully fund a 10.5% raise the CEA negotiated for support professionals and to call for an apology over a district all-staff email released the prior Friday.
Bryce Esselstyn, a second-grade teacher at Trailblazer Elementary, said the Friday message “left out critical context” and framed the delay as the union’s failure to bring a revised contract to a vote. Several speakers…
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