Garvey Teacher's blog

Garvey School Board Election

The November 5th Election gives an opportunity for much needed change.

The Recall of Garvey School Board Member M. Janet Chin

The Recall efforts surrounding Garvey School Board Member Janet Chin continue. A couple of websites have sprung up recently.

https://www.facebook.com/RecallJanetChin

http://www.recalljanetchin.org

News Coverage of October 4th Garvey School District Meeting

Channel 5

Channel 11

Contract Extension? Raise for Garvey Superintendent?

The Garvey School District has been negotiating pay and benefit cuts with their teachers and classified staff for months.

Bloggers on this blog have criticized "the Unions" for their greed.

"The Unions" have made concessions to the District, but the District wants bigger concessions. Negotiations continue.

Garvey School District refuses to discuss bringing back laid off teachers

The Garvey Education Association wants to bring back some of the 32 remaining laid off teachers. They went to the table on Monday May 21st agreeing to concessions in order to save the jobs of some of the laid off teachers.

Parent Meeting with GEA on Tuesday May 29th

The Garvey Education Association (GEA) will be facilitating a meeting with parents and the community on Tuesday May 29th at 6:00 PM. The meeting will be held at the Parent Education Center at 7423 Newmark Street in Rosemead. (Enter from New Avenue)

The meeting will be a question and answer session. Members of GEA Leadership will be on hand to answer questions from the public.

Is Administration next in the dismantling of Garvey?

At the last Board Meeting on May 10th, quietly behind closed doors, the School Board decided to fire two Assistant Superintendents. There are only 4. Of course they won't announce which two of the four are gone. They haven't even told the people who were fired.

I guess it is not just the teachers that cause a threat to Dr. Johnson's power. Half her cabinet is headed out the door on June 30th.