Educators in St. Paul and Minneapolis Are Preparing for Potential Strike via prismreports
, the recruitment and retention of teachers of color, mental health support including a school social worker and school counselor at every location every day, a drop in the school-to-psychologist and school-to-student ratio, a decrease in class size, professional time for ESPs, a plan for educating students in quarantine due to COVID-19, and competitive compensation.
“We have a lack of teaching staff, a lack of support staff. It can literally be that a kid does not get fed because there are not enough staff members there to feed them,” said Ma-Riah Roberson-Moody, first vice president of the Education Support Professionals chapter of MFT Local 59. According to data from MFT Local 59, Minneapolis Public Schools have lost over 640 educators in the last 18 months, a number that includes both educators and Education Support Professionals.
“We have high school teachers now reaching over 160 students, and you want us to be real and relevant and relational and rigorous, you show me,” said one SPFE educator in aThe strikes for both districts are scheduled to take place on March 8. The district and unions have until March 7 to reach a negotiation. Both districts are working on child care alternatives for students if the strikes were to launch.last striked in March 2020 and the strike lasted three days.
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