Friday, December 21, 2012
Central Junior High School remodel has board members debating safety cost issues.
Three hours and eight minutes after District 124 Board of Education gaveled open its meeting Wednesday night---and with the audience of 47 whittled down to just 15---President Kathy Rohan opened the floor to allow public comment on the proposed tax levy for the new year. But no one had anything to say. The floor was then closed, and the levy passed on a quick and unanimous roll-call vote. The meeting was held at Central Junior High School. Evergreen Park Elementary School District 124 asked for $19, 265,861 in the 2012 tax levy. This is a 3.5-percent increase over last year’s extension, the amount of money received by Cook County, of $18,608,938. Subscribe to the Evergreen Park newsletter and breaking news alerts. A levy, Dean Gerdes, …
Monday, October 1, 2012
The Evergreen Park teachers union and D124 school board are trying one last time to settle on a new teachers contract before the union calls a strike on Tuesday.
The fate of whether 1,800 students attend school tomorrow or stay home hangs in the balance as the D124 school board and Evergreen Park teachers union try to work out their differences over a new contract. Sign up for E-P Patch breaking news alerts and follow us on Facebook. The teachers union's negotiating team entered Central Junior High School at 5 p.m. Monday on a wave of community support and before a phalanx of TV news cameras for one last shot at negotiating a new four-year teachers contract. Community support for the teachers and paraprofessionals from Dist. 124's five public elementary schools swelled over the weekend with parents wrapping trees with blue ribbons to show their solidarity with the teachers union. The teachers union…
A final bargaining session is set for Monday between the Evergreen Park teachers union and D124 school board to work out a new teachers contract or teachers walk on Tuesday.
The Evergreen Park teachers union and the Dist. 124 school board have one more try at settling a new teachers’ contract before a threatened strike. Both sides are scheduled to meet today (Monday) at 5 p.m. at Central Junior High School, following a community rally that is set to begin at 4:15 p.m. Sign up for Evergreen Park Patch breaking news alerts for the latest on the EP teachers contract negotiations. If a contract agreement cannot be worked out, the district's teachers and paraprofessionals from Evergreen Park’s five public elementary schools are poised to go on strike tomorrow (Tuesday). A teachers strike would affect 1,800 students in grades K-8. Last week, teachers and paraprofessionals lined 95th Street waving signs and asking …
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Parents speak out in support of D124 teachers. The Evergreen Park teachers union has threatened to walk on Oct. 2 if it cannot reach a tentative contract agreement with the school board.
The Evergreen Park teachers union lined 95th Street on Wednesday afternoon bringing their case for a new four-year contract to the community. Sign up for the E-P Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. The teachers from Evergreen Park's five public elementary schools and the Dist. 124 school board have been in negotiations for a new contract since April. Wednesday's bargaining session ended with no agreement. Another rally is scheduled before next Monday's bargaining session at Central Junior High School at 4:15 p.m. If a tentative agreement cannot be reached, teachers say they will go on strike on Tuesday (Oct. 2). Cathy Pliska who has two children in D124 schools is rallying parents' support of EP teachers and their quest for a fair …
Thursday, September 27, 2012
The Evergreen Park teachers union and Dist. 124 fail to reach deal for new teachers contract. Only one more bargaining session scheduled.
The D124 school board and Evergreen Park teachers union were unable to reach a new contract deal Wednesday evening. Both sides will give it one more shot before teachers' threatened walkout date on Oct. 2. Sign up for the Evergreen Park Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Wednesday’s meeting broke up around 10:30 p.m., after more than five hours of bargaining. IFT spokesman Dave Comerford said that the Dist. 124 school board and teachers union “aren’t even in the same ballpark” after Wednesday evening’s fruitless talks. Both sides declared an impasse last month and issued their best and final offers. The school district and teachers union have been trying to work out a new contract since April. Negotiations are now being handled by …
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Evergreen Park elementary school teachers are poised to strike on Oct. 2 if an agreement for a new contract cannot be reached with the Dist. 124 school board.
The Evergreen Park teachers union and Dist. 124 school board are scheduled for another bargaining session on Wednesday after failing to reach an agreement on a new teachers contract earlier this week. Sign up the Evergreen Park Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Contract talks broke up after four-and-a-half hours of negotiations on Monday evening, prompting teachers to set an October 2 strike date. Both sides have been bargaining for a new teachers contract for five months. Earlier this month the teachers union and school board released what was dubbed as their final offers. Read both proposals. Tony Demma, a speech language pathologist at Southeast Elementary School and member of the Evergreen Park Federation of Teachers …
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John Galt
1:29 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
Kathy, my husband and I do stand with the board. I'm tired of hearing the teachers say that they are fighting for the students! They are fighting for they're own interests. Why are they the only workers that haven't been greatly affected by this economy? I have not had a raise in four years and my health care costs have exactly doubled. My husbands yearly income has also dropped yet our taxes … more ›