Colleagues,

1)    Wednesday May 4 – National Walk-in

Next Wednesday, Newark will be joining with schools all across the country in participating in a National Walk-in!   See the attached flyer and we will have more information to come.

2) Negotiations Update – We have reached out to the Newark Public Schools inviting them to come to the table in two weeks to begin negotiations.  More information to come. 

3) DYFS Warning – The district, no matter how insignificant your conduct, will use any instance of alleged child abuse to bring tenure charges against you and attempt to have you terminated. 

4/26 SAVE THE DATE NEXT NPS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

NTU wants what students need...We want a Contract Now!

Date: 04/26/2016
Time: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location: George W. Carver

✓ Cerf needs to start negotiating and stop dictating
✓ Get the lead out
✓ Hands off our Fringe Benefits Fund
✓ Stop all future cuts
✓ Reduce class size & return all aides and clerks
✓ Less testing
✓ Fill in this blank & wear your school colors

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.— Frederick Douglass

John M Abeigon
President
Newark Teachers Union

Colleagues,

1)    April 26, SAVE THE DATE!  NPS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

Come out and wear your school colors!

George W. Carver Elementary School

333 Clinton Pl,

Newark, NJ 07112

6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

✓ Cerf needs to start negotiating and stop dictating

✓ Get the lead out

✓ Hands off our Fringe Benefits Fund

✓ Stop all future cuts

✓ Reduce class size & return all aides and clerks

✓ Less testing

2) Negotiations Update – As of right now, the district has not formally responded to our request to begin negotiations.  Despite that, our negotiations committee has been meeting regularly and are finalizing our list of

Colleagues,

1)      Negotiations Update – Earlier this week, the NTU reached out to the Newark Public Schools of our intentions to formally begin negotiations.  Our contract negotiations committee is hard at work putting together all the proposals we received from the members in preparation for exchanging demands and proposals with the Newark Public schools.  We will continue to keep you as informed as possible without violating the confidentiality inherent in negotiations.

 2)      Community Schools – The NTU and AFT will be hosting a Community Schools Information session at Shabazz High School

From April 26 to April 30, the Friends of the Westfield Memorial Library will be offering any teacher with proof of employment "buy 1, get 1 free" on regularly priced books during its annual used book, dvd and cd sale. The book sale financially supports the Library and such expensive Friends’ activities as the Children's Programs and the Museum Guest Passes.  Regular prices are $2 for hard backs; $1.50 for trade paperbacks and $.50 for paperbacks. On April 29, all items will be half-price and on April 30 $5 buys a supermarket bag full of items, with each additional bag only $3. Past sales have