Every Columbus student deserves a world-class education. In a booming, resource-rich city like Columbus, it’s no accident they don’t have it yet. Led by powerful developers, corporate interests, and politicians, our Columbus City Schools administration for years has pursued policies of disinvestment, school closings, and the transfer of our public resources to private interests. Click…
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An open letter to the Columbus City Schools Board and Superintendent from Project Connect’s Vulnerable Youth Staff
We, the members of Project Connect, write to communicate to you the profound professional and personal effects of the move to overhaul our positions from CEA bargaining-unit positions to civil service, non-union positions. You are aware by now that we believe these actions violated both our CEA contract and state law. What legal filings won’t…
CEA Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge After District’s Decision to Strip Homeless Youth Advocates of Union Status and Contract Protections
COLUMBUS, OH – July 8, 2022 – Today, the Columbus Education Association (CEA) filed an unfair labor practice charge with the State Employment Relations Board alleging that the district has illegally reassigned educators whose primary job assignment is to advocate for homeless youth from their union positions to non-union positions and has effectively stripped these…
Columbus Teachers to Rally Against Board’s Unconscionable, Illegal Decision to Strip Homeless Youth Advocates of Union Status and Contract Protections
COLUMBUS, Ohio – June 21, 2022 – Frustrated by the District’s unilateral decision to remove its members in the Project Connect program from the union against a backdrop of attacks on teachers and students at the bargaining table, the Columbus Education Association will rally at 4:30 p.m. outside of today’s Board of Education meeting. Authorized…
CEA Urges City Council to Reconsider Tax Abatements for Wealthy Developers
COLUMBUS, Ohio – June 16, 2022 – During a public hearing at City Hall last evening, Columbus Education Association (CEA) member Greg Mild urged City Councilmember Shayla Favor to reconsider policy revisions to the Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) residential tax abatement policy, which allows wealthy developers to continue draining much needed funding from our schools….