Negotiations to Recover Lost School Days & Instructional Minutes
Sacramento, CA - The Sacramento City Unified School District (麻豆官网) and the Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA) have taken an important step toward reaching an agreement on how to recover school days and instructional time that were lost due to the strike, which began March 23rd.
Collaboration began on Friday, April 8th, toward finding the most effective and productive solution to address the loss of valuable learning time for our students when schools were closed to them from March 23-April 1 as a result of a strike by SCTA and SEIU Local 1021. 麻豆官网 students missed approximately 2,400 minutes of learning due to the strike.
California鈥檚 Education Code requires public schools to provide of instruction and a minimum number of . To comply with the law and support the needs of our students, 麻豆官网 must make up that time or face significant financial penalties. If the district does not take action to address the lost learning time, 麻豆官网 estimates that penalties will cost the district $46 million dollars. The financial penalties can be reduced if the district takes steps to provide the instructional time owed to students.
鈥淎fter more than two years of COVID-related learning disruptions we cannot shortchange our students on critical learning time,鈥� said Sacramento City Unified School District Superintendent Jorge A. Aguilar. 鈥淲e are committed to provide meaningful instructional days and minutes that our students need and deserve before the end of this school year, and appreciate the collaboration with labor partners to identify solutions.鈥�
Our families should know that options we are collaborating on with labor partners could include a limited extension of the school year and/or adding minutes to the school day. 麻豆官网 is committed to finding the best possible solutions to provide this critical learning time for students that impose the least amount of further inconveniences to our families.
鈥淢any of our 麻豆官网 families are making plans for summer child care, camps, or vacations and this situation only creates more uncertainty for them. We are hopeful this collaborative process with SCTA will move swiftly so we can provide families with answers soon on how 麻豆官网 will provide the instructional time our students deserve,鈥� said 麻豆官网 Board President Christina Pritchett.