by Karl Ewald As you’ve probably figured out, I’m a big picture guy and my strategy has almost always included trying to reach outside my designated bounds to try to change the context in which […]
by Karl Ewald The CCFT and district negotiations teams met on April 25th and came to an agreement on compensation that both sides felt was a workable deal. I’m writing this right after the May […]
by Maya Bendotoff and Karl Ewald CCFT recently commenced negotiations with the District on salary and benefits, safety, the DC matrix, and some other issues. Negotiations have been moved to Human Resources (from Administrative Services). […]
by Karl Ewald I don’t play basketball much, but basketball did teach me something. When I first started playing, I would just run all the time. Trying to score or trying to stop someone […]
Steve Schessler If you think back four years to 2012, you may remember the huge campaign around Proposition 30 – following our great success then, Prop 30 funds currently comprise 14% of our total revenue […]
Conrad Scott-Curtis As we move into the heart of negotiations this spring, I want to highlight a key difference in budget perspective and philosophy between CCFT and the District, a difference which illustrates the import […]
Dan Rothwell “Catastrophizing” is defined by psychologist John Grohol on the PsychCentral blogging site as “an irrational thought that something is far worse than it actually is.” Such is the case when the budget is […]
Conrad Scott-Curtis Talk about the Budget The conversation around the budget at Cabrillo is changing. Before the last two Board of Governors’ meetings, the Board engaged in budget study sessions with representatives of the District, […]
Conrad Scott-Curtis Original Assumptions Projected a Deficit of $13 Million by 2018-19; New Assumptions Project a Deficit of $3 Million by the Same Year; CCFT Encouraged by New Opening in Dialogue; CCFT Request for […]
By Conrad Scott-Curtis CCFT and the District are currently in negotiations over compensation for the coming academic year, 2015-16. Timing This year we face particular challenges to finishing negotiations by the end of the school […]
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