Report from Jan. 7, 2026 Bargaining Meeting

We opened the calendar year by discussing a variety of MOUs including the following:

• We signed off on the FCUSD Preschool Experience and Transitional Kindergarten Teacher Salary Placement MOU.  This MOU creates a recruitment pipeline allowing preschool experience to count for up to nine years on the salary schedule.

• We began discussions about the Middle School Supervision MOU. It defines 15-minute before ot afterschool duties (not both), allows adjunct duty credits for fcea reps and site council,, and requires collaborative scheduling to ensure site-level parity and transparency.  This MOU is under discussion and will return to the table in March.

• We signed the Summer School MOU that reinstates summer school for 2025-26, focusing on credit recovery and expanded learning. The MOU establishes various staff stipends, replaces APEX at High school with teacher-led instruction, and caps class sizes at 20:1. To be clear, APEX will NOT be used this year for summer instruction. For the Expanded Learning Program (E-LOP K-5) we are working to get teachers more time during their pd days prior to summer school starting to plan lessons from the general theme material provided that fits the needs of their students.

• The New Teacher Training MOU was signed. It mandates summer training for new hires via daily stipends, and ensures FCEA will have presentation priority on day one of those training sessions.

There were also several presentations today about the following:

• We presented a summary of the past two and a half years of the progress being made in the new three-tier evaluation model.  The model evaluates proficiency, utilizing the "10-10-10" observation method and job-specific rubrics for support.  Also shared were the testimonial videos shared out at staff meetings on Jan 8 and included in the ppt your Principal should have shared.  Take a few minutes and hear what your colleagues have to say about this new evaluation process.

• The TK Workgroup is developing master schedules to maintain 1:10 ratios while minimizing disruptive transitions. Discussions focused on balancing contractual prep time with student needs and ensuring consistency across elementary sites.

• David Byrd updated us on job description naming conventions. Many of our contractual job descriptions have not been updated in decades and we are well on our way to updating many of them by the end of the school year.

• FCEA proposed contract language for progressive discipline aims to replace vague, inconsistent site practices with a transparent framework. There is general agreement about the process the conflict is about putting it in our contract where it becomes grievable.  FCEA is fighting to get this language in our contract to  protect members from arbitrary actions, empower site representatives, and align FCUSD with standard California labor practices.