Last updated, 6/15/22
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Access the current issue of “The EduGator”, Gateway Community Newsletter. Back issues available at the bottom of each edition.
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Newsletter – From Your GEA President
Have a great summer!
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Gateway Budget Votes, Town-By-Town
If you live in a Gateway town, please attend and support the school budget if you can…
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MTA Sponsored Early Retirement Bill – Update
- The legislative process of the MTA Early Retirement Bill
- More Detailed View of the Legislative Process
- MTA Early Retirement Bill – Fact Sheet
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Learn More about the MTA’s Role in Supporting the Fair Share Amendment, and what you can do to help. The MTA believes this is the clearest path to fully funding schools that is out there.
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5 Days of State-Provided COVID Related Sick Leave This Year:
The state is offering 5 days of COVID sick leave this year up to a total $ amount of $850 (including benefits). This means that, for some, a portion of the 5 sick days (whatever is not covered under the $850) would be made up from an individual’s banked sick-time. The requirements for these days are loose, but documentation must be provided.
You can view the form at this link: Leave Request Form
or you can download the form to print or send here: Leave Request form Download
*** These forms should be turned in to Deb Kuhn in the Central Office for processing.
*** Some possible uses of the sick leave
*** Note that, in general, employers may not require employees to use other types of available paid leave before they use COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave. Similarly, employers may not require employees to search for or find a replacement worker to cover the time the employee will miss while using COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave.
*** Ask Your GEA Building Rep, or a GEA Executive Committee member, if you have any questions.
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TOXIC POSITIVITY, by Julie Mason on October 6, 2020:
Set Boundaries, and Name What You’re Feeling (and it ain’t positivity….). This article sums it up. Things are NOT normal and teachers, regardless of their super-powers, cannot make it that way (despite claims by government, school board, parents and administrators to the contrary).
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Chicago Teachers Won’t Go Back Until It’s Safe(er)!
A Win for Union Power (and Common Sense…)
70% of Chicago public school teachers voted to defy the mayor’s “return to school” order.
Chicago Cancels Classes After Teachers Resist Returning to School
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More on the CDC’s New Quarantine Guidance:
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5 Days of State-Provided COVID Related Sick Leave This Year:
The state is offering 5 days of COVID sick leave this year up to a total $ amount of $850 (including benefits). This means that, for some, a portion of the 5 sick days (whatever is not covered under the $850) would be made up from an individuals banked sick-time. The requirements for these days are loose, but documentation must be provided.
You can view the form at this link: Leave Request Form
or you can download the form to print or send here: Leave Request form Download
*** These forms should be turned in to Deb Kuhn in the Central Office for processing.
*** Some possible uses of the sick leave
*** Note that, in general, employers may not require employees to use other types of available paid leave before they use COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave. Similarly, employers may not require employees to search for or find a replacement worker to cover the time the employee will miss while using COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave.
*** Ask Your GEA Building Rep, or a GEA Executive Committee member, if you have any questions.
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5 Days of State-Provided COVID Related Sick Leave This Year:
The state is offering 5 days of COVID sick leave this year up to a total $ amount of $850 (including benefits). This means that, for some, a portion of the 5 sick days (whatever is not covered under the $850) would be made up from an individuals banked sick-time. The requirements for these days are loose, but documentation must be provided.
You can view the form at this link: Leave Request Form
or you can download the form to print or send here: Leave Request form Download
*** These forms should be turned in to Deb Kuhn in the Central Office for processing.
*** Some possible uses of the sick leave
*** Note that, in general, employers may not require employees to use other types of available paid leave before they use COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave. Similarly, employers may not require employees to search for or find a replacement worker to cover the time the employee will miss while using COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave.
*** Ask Your GEA Building Rep, or a GEA Executive Committee member, if you have any questions.
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Pool Testing Consent Form
Click HERE to complete the consent form to participate in Gateway’s pool testing program, Beginning the week of November 15th on Tuesdays. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page and hit “next” as directed…
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COVID Booster Shots are now available
Check the CVS Website or with your local provider for more details. At this time, this applies only to those who received the Pfizer vaccine, but others are on the way. Teachers have been determined to be among the “frontline workers” eligible for the additional shot – regardless of age. More info is available HERE
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Important Survey for Staff and Community Members re. Masking
Please take a moment to fill out this SURVEY to help support administrative decision-making around keeping staff and students safe.
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DISTRICT QUARANTINE PROTOCOL
To see a simplified flow cart of the districts protocols for various COVID quarantine situations, click HERE
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The MTA Endorses the Fair Share Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution. Do you?
Read about it here and sign the pledge:
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