Posts

Financial Support for Workers - EA Business Item/Resolution

During the closures for Covid-19, not all members of your community (including older students, their families, and EA staff) will be on paid leave or on leave that is sufficient to meet the demands of the impact of quarantine. EAs around the state have line items in their budgets that are not being used and can be donated to support funds directly through their memberships or to community organizations that provide food, medical services, or other essential need services. The line items include expenses for the WEA RA, any rent for assembly meetings, any catering or rental costs for meetings not held, or any event expenses that have been cancelled due to closure. We encourage our members to propose a resolution or new business item that will promote the sharing of this money with our community to meet our first and second demands, to keep our students, communities, and staff whole. Financial Support for Workers (adopted from the Seattle EA March Assembly) : Whereas th...
Post a Comment
Read more

Every Student Deserves an A - EA Business Item/Resolution

The following new business item or meeting resolution comes from StrikeReadySF. As many districts are reviewing OSPI grading policies and determining their own, we are seeing district and building leadership clash with staff and EAs over the use of punitive marks and seemingly no-harm grades like "not pass" and "incomplete" that can have harmful impacts on students with lack the access and privilege to earn a Pass or A mark. This resolution stresses the importance of acknowledging the inequities that were present before the pandemic and persist, if not have been amplified through it, and demands all students receive an A. For districts and EAs still determining policies, we encourage you to begin the conversation with a resolution like this one. For districts and EAs who have already received policies, we encourage you to present a business item to shift the focus of the inequity of the policy your board and district may have adopted Every Stud...
Post a Comment
Read more