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Union president urges board to protect students as trustees move into closed session on labor talks
Summary
At a special San Ramon Valley Unified School District meeting, the board voted 5-0 to adjourn to closed session for labor negotiations after Laura Finkel, president of the San Ramon Valley Education Association, urged trustees to avoid cuts that would harm class sizes and mental-health services and to pursue alternatives to a reported $26,000,000 shortfall.
At a special meeting of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board of Education, trustees voted unanimously to adjourn to closed session for labor negotiations after a public comment from the teachers’ union president urging the board to protect students from budget reductions.
Laura Finkel, president of the San Ramon Valley Education Association, used her allotted three minutes to press district leaders to exhaust alternatives before cutting classroom services. “When we go into labor negotiations as your labor partners with management, we go in there with the assumption and with the…
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