We Can’t Wait: Bargaining Our Next Contract

In 2025, SDEA members are bargaining our next contract & fighting for the schools our students deserve!
What we’re fighting for:
- The We Can’t Wait bargaining platform was built by members, informed by the community, and aligned with a statewide fight!
- Ratified by an overwhelming 98% of SDEA members at November & December 2024 union meetings
- Shared with the community through family flyering in January & walk-ins in February 2025.
- Presented to the SDUSD School Board on January 28, 2025 to “Sunshine” – the official beginning of negotiations!
News
February 25, 2026
2025-2027 Contract Resources
Tentative Agreement: 2025-2027 SDEA Collective Bargaining Agreement
February 25, 2026
Legal Observation Trainings
Important opportunity from our community partners: This March, access in person or online Legal Observation Trainings led by local attorneys and facilitated…
February 24, 2026
Special Education Survey
Special Education data to help hold the District accountable: We’ve won promises of more enforceable, sustainable Special Education staffing, but we know we…
February 24, 2026
TA Highlight: Fixes for Special Education
We won a settlement on our Unfair Labor Practice over Special Education staffing. So what does that mean? For years, Special Education in San Diego Unified…
February 20, 2026
We won a union contract… now we vote on it!
We did it! Back in Fall 2024, SDEA members collectively decided on priorities for our next contract. After sixteen intense bargaining sessions and nearly a…




