The Fresno Teachers Association on Thursday called on Fresno Unified to take a series of steps to improve safety and provide support to teachers and students who the union says were exposed to a woman threatening physical violence in a profanity-laced rant in a classroom this week. According to...
COVID-19 Increases Fresno Teachers’ Workload. District Bumps Their Pay.
Some Fresno Unified teachers will get a mid-year pay bump after the district agreed to compensate those who substitute in extra classes or had extra students assigned to their classrooms this year. In some cases where teachers have been out on COVID-19 quarantine and no subs have been available,...
Fresno Teachers to File Grievances Over Alleged Contract Violations
The Fresno Teachers Association is alleging that Fresno Unified School District is committing multiple contract violations regarding teacher work assignments. The grievances allege that because the district is understaffed, teachers are losing their class preparation time because they are being assigned to substitute for other classes, are having to juggle...
Teachers Union Says Fresno Unified Gets F for COVID-19 Safety Planning
Fresno Unified teachers are having to buy personal protective equipment for their classrooms because they don't know how to obtain it through the district, the teachers union says. The Fresno Teachers Association is calling on the district to implement a 10-point plan that includes more clearly communicating the process to...
Fresno Teachers to Trustees: Clovis Teachers Got $4K, Pay Us $3,200
After years of rocky relations, Fresno Unified's management and teachers union have enjoyed a few years of what both describe as a collegial partnership. But a rift has formed over how to allocate $8 million for healthcare funding — leaving observers to wonder if the two sides are preparing to...
First Day in School for More Fresno Kids Will Be April 6. So Long as County Is in Red Tier.
Fresno Unified School District officials announced Tuesday that the district will resume in-person instruction for many elementary students on April 6, immediately following spring break, but Fresno County will need to be in the red tier on the state's coronavirus reopening dashboard for the plan to move forward. The return...
Local Schools Inch Closer to Resuming Face to Face Instruction
When Fresno County on Tuesday moved into the red-tinged Tier 2 of the state's reopening plan because of lowered coronavirus infection rates, schools got a lot closer to being able to reopen for in-person classes. And once they do, students who play a keyboard instrument, the drums, or a trumpet...
Distance Learning Comes with a Learning Curve for Students, Parents, Teachers
Nearly all of Fresno County's 208,000 students have been outfitted with internet access and laptops or tablets for their distance learning, Superintendent of Schools Jim Yovino said Wednesday. But there are rural pockets where students haven't been able to get online, which Yovino said "is a bigger concern to me."...
Fresno Unified Teachers Want to Know: What’s the Distance Learning Plan?
Fresno Unified officials say the distance learning program provided to its 74,000 students starting just three weeks from now will be markedly different than the one in the final two months of the past school year. But details about what school will look like while students are learning virtually are...
Fresno Teachers Union: Schools Can’t Safely Reopen by Aug. 17, Teachers Shouldn’t Return
Fresno Unified School District schools can't reopen safely by Aug. 17, the district's teachers union says, because of rising coronavirus infection rates in the county and the need to maintain health and safety guidelines set by local, state, and federal health and education officials. "It is abundantly clear that we...