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Contract language, counselor licensure and rubrics raise questions; district to provide clarifying edits
Summary
Bargaining and district negotiators reviewed language-cleanup edits, counselor placement on salary columns (Article 31), and whether evaluation rubrics belong in Appendix B; the district agreed to supply revised language and update rubric documents on the website.
Negotiators reviewed several language-cleanup items in the draft contract, discussed counselor licensure placement in the salary matrix, and debated whether evaluation rubrics should be embedded in Appendix B or linked.
Bargaining representatives pointed to lingering language on page 7 (individual class preparation) and inconsistent cross-page numbering. Agency officials said they would provide a cleaner version and confirmed that rubric links that had broken would be reformatted as PDFs and posted on the district website. “Any employee should be able to find their evaluation somewhere,” an Agency official said, explaining the move to hard copies so links cannot silently break.
On Article 31, speakers discussed whether counselors with a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential (LCPC) should be explicitly placed in the same column as Licensed School Clinical Social Workers (LSCSW). The district said LCPC and LSCSW requirements are comparable and proposed placing counselorship credentials in the same column; negotiators agreed to double-check licensure prevalence and confirm which credentials current staff hold before final placement.
On Articles 43 and 44, the district said it would not move forward immediately and recommended the monthly and morale committees discuss implementation details during the next school year; bargaining representatives pushed back, reiterating that negotiable topics should remain at the bargaining table rather than being shifted to ad-hoc subgroups.
Next steps: district to provide updated language-cleanup text and PDF rubrics; parties to reconvene on outstanding contract-language clarifications.
