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Board divided over grant-funded social worker hire; motion to send item to committee tied 3-3 and failed
Summary
Public commenters and board members clashed over whether a proposed grant-funded social worker supplants union positions; administration says the role is 100% grant-funded and nonunion while the union has filed a grievance. A motion to move the item to committee deadlocked 3-3; the personnel recommendation passed on final roll call.
Longtime staff and community members told the Akron Public School Board on Nov. 4 they feared the administration was supplanting unionized positions by hiring nonunion employees for work previously done by contracted educators.
Dan Richards, a counselor at Garfield for 28 years, said the administration's actions "contradict the narrative" of collaboration and asserted that a newly listed social-worker position had been designated nonunion, a step he called harmful to employees and to…
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