^{Scores of teachers, parents and support personnel from the Pajaro Valley Unified School District attended a closed session meeting of the Board of Trustees to express their support for smaller class sizes, salary improvements and increased preparation time for teachers during the public comment section of the closed meeting. The PVUSD has been stalling negotiations on these three important items, but with the release on Tuesday of the Governor's May Revise, many feel the district is able to adequately meet the demands of parents and employees.}

^{You can view a presentation on the status of our negotiations here.}

In Addtion, on May 17, the Legislative Analyst Office released an Overview of the Governor's May Revision. From what we gather, this appears to be better news on top of good news!

The current PVUSD-PVFT Contract is for school years 2009-2012, which means it is now "expired." This does not mean we have no contract; the terms of this contract remain in force until new contract langauge is approved. What this does mean is that the entire contract is up for negotiation this year —and negotiations are now under way!

April 10 Update: Time is running out and our school year will soon come to a close.  It's been more than two weeks since we made a proposal to the district asking for lower class sizes/caseloads, increased salary and prep time.  Today, in negotiations, the district had no response!  If they drag their feet, our school year will end without a contract to ratify. There is NO excuse for this!  The district needs to start planning for smaller classes now! Please click on the link below to send a letter to the Board of Trustees to ask them to "MAKE THE DISTRICT NEGOTIATE"! See the link below under Time to Take Action to respond.

It is Time to Take Action! Read on below

Jack Carroll is our Chief Negotiator on the team of six teachers representing PVFT in negotiations. He has prepared three slideshows to be presented to both the School Board and our site Representative Council:

• Fat City makes the point that PVUSD should spend down its excessive reserves; that the reserve represents millions of dollars that should be spent supporting the students, teachers and schools of PVUSD.
• District Comparison presents a series of statistics (using the latest data from www.ed-data.org) comparing PVUSD to 36 other California school districts whose enrollment is +/- 25% of PVUSD's enrollment and with Hispanic or Latino as their largest ethnic group.
• Compare These Ending Balance Projections, which looks at the District's numbers and compares them with numbers that reflect the new fiscal reality following the passage of Prop 30 and the Governor's budget proposal. See below for this presentation.