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Dear Peralta Community,<\/div>\n
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Don\u2019t attend tonight\u2019s board meeting without reading the\u00a0PFT e-Communiqu\u00e9, the union take on the latest district developments. Want an item in the e-C? Email\u00a0PFT Communications Director Debby\u00a0Weintraub at dweintraub@peralta.edu<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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*The Peralta Board of Trustees meets tonight at 7 at 333 E. Eighth St. Nominations for the chancellor selection committee will go before the board, as will other notable agenda items:<\/div>\n
For the third consecutive meeting, the district has introduced a proposal \u201cdesignating academic manager positions.\u201d Academic manager positions not funded by grants can include faculty retreat rights. With former managers the only recent faculty hires,\u00a0PFT fears that administrative retreats are taking the place of established, carefully prioritized faculty hiring processes.<\/div>\n
Trustees will consider raising the student health fee by a dollar to $18 for all fulltime students starting spring 2012. (Part-time students would pay $10.) Services covered include pregnancy testing, family planning, STD screening and treatment, HIV testing, pap smears, health education, mental health counseling, TB testing, physical exams, doctor visits, and referral services.<\/div>\n
The board will take up an amendment to the district\u2019s right-of-way contract with CalTrans, a $1.8 million deal for using\u00a0PCCD parcels of land along I-880.\u00a0PFT hopes that the money, to be handed over by 2014, can be used to offset future cuts to classroom instruction and student services.<\/div>\n
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*Join\u00a0PFT Sat., Oct. 15, at 1 p.m. on the Laney quad, as it links arms with labor and community organizations and marches into downtown Oakland. The Jobs Not Cuts rally will call attention to the U.S. employment crisis, Wall St. bailouts, and the defunding of public education. The march begins at 2:30 p.m., with the rally set to begin at Frank Ogawa Plaza at 3:30 p.m.<\/div>\n
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*Faculty\u2019s reminded to complete the\u00a0PFT<\/a> communications survey<\/a> by Wed., Oct. 12. Faculty who supply a non-Peralta.edu email address will be eligible for a drawing for a $100 iTunes gift card.<\/div>\n
In solidarity,<\/div>\n
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Matthew M. Goldstein, President<\/div>\n
Debby Weintraub, Communications Director<\/div>\n
Peralta Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1603<\/div>\n
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For more about PFT\u2014contract information, contacts, downloadable forms, updates, etc.\u2014visit pft1603.org<\/a>. Follow\u00a0PFT on Twitter @<\/a>PFT1603, and find us on Facebook.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Peralta Community, Don\u2019t attend tonight\u2019s board meeting without reading the\u00a0PFT e-Communiqu\u00e9, the union take on the latest district developments. Want an item in the e-C? Email\u00a0PFT Communications Director Debby\u00a0Weintraub at dweintraub@peralta.edu. *The Peralta Board of Trustees meets tonight at 7 at 333 E. Eighth St. Nominations for the chancellor selection committee will go before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}