CCEA’s refusal impacts students and staff
LAS VEGAS – The Clark County School District (CCSD) is making adjustments to school start and end times at approximately 45 schools because CCEA, which serves as the bargaining unit for licensed educators, has refused to consider contract waivers (An avenue for schools to waive specific provisions of the negotiated agreement) for over six months without additional, unreasonable concessions by the District in the upcoming 2023–2025 Negotiated Agreement. Without the approximately 106 contract waivers approved for approximately 86 schools, some schools will be forced to change their schedules, reducing instruction time for those students and impacting families.
“Our students will bear the brunt of CCEA’s unreasonable demands, and learning loss will occur with reduced classroom time,” said Tod Story, Chief Communications Officer. “Should CCEA continue its bad faith, obstructionist tactics of refusing contract waivers, our licensed professionals at these schools will see a reduction in their work hours, which estimates show results in over $10 million less in pay. Our teachers and especially our students deserve better!”
With CCEA’s refusal to agree to continuing or establishing these contract waivers, student and staff schedules will be impacted. After six months of exhaustive attempts to work with CCEA to implement the process for approval of the contract waivers, CCEA continues to refuse to bargain in good faith–responding only with additional, unreasonable concession demands in the upcoming 2023–2025 Negotiated Agreement.
Approximately 45 schools will see a loss in instructional time. As a result, students in some of the most underserved communities will lose approximately 171,000 minutes of instructional time that the District planned to offer. Additionally, the changes will impact pay for over 3,000 staff at the impacted schools as the contract waivers provided additional incentives for the extended time worked.
A standard school schedule is six hours and 11 minutes. If a school’s administration changes its schedule, such as extending the school day to benefit students and/or staff, a contract waiver must be agreed to by CCEA for those changes to be implemented.
Administrators at impacted schools are messaging parents about the upcoming changes. Principals will follow up with additional messaging as school start and end times are finalized in the coming weeks.
See the list below of schools that will see a loss of instructional time.
Beckley Elementary School
Brinley Middle School
Cambeiro Elementary School
Cortez Elementary School
Craig Elementary School
Crestwood Elementary School
Culley Elementary School
Dailey Elementary School
Detwiler Elementary School
Diaz Elementary School
Ira J. Earl Elementary School
Edwards Elementary School
Fremont Middle School
Global Community High School
Herron Elementary School
Hewetson Elementary School
Hickey Elementary School
Katz Elementary School
Lunt Elementary School
Lynch Elementary School
Martinez Elementary School
McWilliams Elementary School
Monaco Middle School
Moore Elementary School
Orr Middle School
Paradise Professional Development Elementary School
Park Elementary School
Dean Petersen Elementary School
Pittman Elementary School
Robison Middle School
Ronzone Elementary School
Rowe Elementary School
Sedway Middle School
Squires Elementary School
Stanford Elementary School
Tate Elementary School
Ruby S. Thomas Elementary School
Twin Lakes Elementary School
Von Tobel Middle School
Ward Elementary School
Warren Elementary School
Wengert Elementary School
West Prep Elementary School
West Prep High School
Tom Williams Elementary School
