We won some big improvements:

After sixteen intense bargaining sessions and nearly a year of relentless organizing, our SDEA bargaining team recently reached agreement with the District:

✔ An agreement to settle the Special Education caseload overage ULP and call off our strike. If ratified, this finally breaks the cycle of years of grievances. Educators will automatically receive a monthly stipend when over contractual caseload limits – no more waiting months or years for relief. This compensates educators and financially incentivizes the District to fix chronic understaffing instead of saving money by leaving vacancies unfilled and educators overloaded. See more highlights of how this settlement addresses Special Education staffing.

✔A tentative agreement on our entire next contract… delivering improved staffing, pay, and stability for students, educators, and communities!

Click here to read our entire tentative agreement and click here to access resources to understand it!

Right now all this improved contract is tentative because to actually implement these changes, SDEA members need to VOTE! Voting will take place in person at a union meeting at your school or program, beginning Feb. 26.

Ratification timeline:

• Feb 12: Tentative agreement reached & strike called off
• Feb 26 – March 23: Site-based union meetings and in-person voting. Members on leave and Visiting Teachers can vote at the SDEA office (M-F, 8AM – 5PM)
• Mar 23: All ballots are due to the SDEA office on March 23 by 5PM
• Mar 24: SDEA Elections Committee counts ballots

Only members vote!

Our contract covers all certificated educators, but only SDEA members get to vote to ratify it. Not yet an SDEA member? Join now online!