Easy IEP Workshop On Wednesday, February 6, 2019, the NTU will be providing a workshop for staff looking for more information about Easy IEP. The workshop will be from 3:30 to 4:30 and held at the Newark Teachers Union office, 1019 Broad Street (parking available behind the building on Beecher Street)
NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN EASY IEP TRAINING SESSION; it is designed to help staff already trained in Easy IEP became more fluent in the system. Candace Wells and Ajay Srikanth from Newark Board of Education will be the presenters. If you are interested in a5ending, reach out to yesntu@newarkteachersunion.com. PD Certificates will only be given to NTU members who RSVP to attend.
On behalf of the NTU Executive Board and Staff, we want to wish you all a restful Winter Recess. It has already been a difficult year in many ways, and as always, our members wen above and beyond to meet those challenges. Just a few quick updates:
Contract Survey - We have received around 400 responses to our contract survey. Negotiations are supposed to begin formally in January, and we will be having a membership meeting to update you soon after. If there is one thing you do educationally during your break, FILL OUT THIS SURVEY!
It was brought to our attention that Aetna has increased our health insurance premiums by 17.85%. We are meeting with NPS and the other union heads tomorrow to discuss this untimely increase further. It is important to note that this it wasn't a negotiated or negotiable change. In fact, we warned the then state-operated school board and Superintendent about Aetna in 2016 (see below emails). Short term savings were promised, but as we said at the time, "we hesitate to trust any claim [being] made by the district [about this change]."
The district's choice of providers and what premiums they
Please note that this litigation was aimed specifically at the strongest Teacher's Union in New Jersey, the Newark Teachers Union and we won! Your seniority has been secured!
There are five major fines, lawsuits and federal investigations from previous administrations that could soon drain millions of dollars from the school district’s budget, according to Newark Public Schools Superintendent Roger León.
One fine alone that has gone unpaid for three years could cost $48 million -- at a minimum.
Newark teachers are due for a $2.5 million windfall this year, and hundreds more can expect hefty raises in the future, thanks to a new agreement between the district and the city teachers union.
