SC/TA Speaks

I want to give everyone an update on the surplussing situation for the coming school year and attempt to tamper down the untrue rumors that are just adding to employee anxiety.   This year, we are facing a record number of surplussed staff, especially on the teacher...

The district administration and the SC/TA agreed to a tentative settlement of the recent financial impact bargaining, thus avoiding what could have become the unilateral imposition of a financial settlement of the School Board’s choosing.   The tentative agreement...

Last week,  the SC/TA received official notification from the superintendent that the school district was in the midst of a “financial urgency requiring immediate Action."   Under Florida Statute 447, the state collective bargaining laws, the public agency (our school...

  My good friend and mentor, Dwight Logan, died yesterday.   No one who remains in the Sarasota district schools will remember Dwight as he retired in the early 1980’s and died at age 95. But we are all greatly indebted to him.   Dwight led the Sarasota administrators...