Negotiating teams for the Arcadia Teachers Association and the Board of Education have declared an impasse. Letters will be sent to the Public Employees Relations Board which may appoint a mediator. If the mediator is unable to resolve the differences, a fact finding panel may be selected.
Arcadia teachers will file an unfair labor charge against the Arcadia Unified School District for "not participating in a timely manner" in a process of negotiations called fact-finding.
Arcadia Board of Education has announced an impasse in negotiations with teachers represented by Arcadia Teachers Association. Letter to that effect been sent to the Public Employment Relations Board with a request that a mediator be assigned.
Arcadia teachers learned that their stalled contract negotiations with the district will advance to a stage called fact-finding (meaning an impartial panel paid by the state will judge disputes between the teachers and the district).
Negotiations between Arcadia Teachers Association and Arcadia Unified School District halted Friday night as the two sides moved to place dispute before a fact-finding panel.
About 90 Arcadia teachers held a rally in front of the school district administration building to support their bargaining team during an impasse in contract negotiations.
Impasse still exists between Arcadia Teachers Association and the school district following one session with a mediator appointed by the Public Employment Relations Board.
Arcadia Teachers settled their year-long contract dispute with the school district following 2 marathon bargaining sessions. Now the talks must be approved by the Arcadia School Board and by Arcadia teachers.
The Arcadia Board of Education has begun the process of finding a new superintendent of Arcadia schools. Elbert Souders, current superintendent who announced his retirement last spring, will leave the district in June 1985. The Board has hired Dr. Elaine Boyce of School Services of California, Inc. to coordinate recruitment and selection process.
A two-year contract was approved Monday by the Arcadia Teachers Association wand ratified the same evening by the Board of Education. The ratification followed a full year of negotiations between the two groups.
The Board of Education has begun deliberations on cutting programs to match the $1.2 million in budget cuts that must be made. Sixty teachers may be terminated. Other possible program cuts are discussed.
Dr. Ed Ryan, district superintendent, told the Board of Education that the teaching staff in the Arcadia School District must be reduced next year by 30. There are several reasons for the cut, including decreased enrollment and lack of funds. Plans for that reduction and the position of the Arcadia Teachers Association are discussed.
Protest by about 1/3 of 300 teachers in Arcadia Unified School District on stalemate in contract negotiations at school board meeting. ATA President Priscilla Tedesco and other teachers appeared before microphone to protest.
Superintendent Elbert E. Souders of the Arcadia Unified School District issued a statement Monday expressing his regret and disappointed in the fact that negotiations for a contract between the Arcadia Teachers Association and the district were not completed before the school year ended.