Today, the MFP Task Force met to discuss the funding formula for Louisiana K-12 Public Schools. Each year, the task force meets to develop a recommendation for the school funding formula. That recommendation will be considered by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education when they develop their proposal for consideration by the Louisiana Legislature.

Educators

We are public servants working to shape the next generation of citizens, scholars, and leaders. As skilled and experienced teaching professionals, we provide crucial mentorship and support to UC’s most marginalized and historically underserved student populations.

Unionists

Our solidarity creates community, making shared governance and collective action possible. When we work together, we can transform bad “gigs” into more stable, full-time and dignified careers. As part of a national union of educators and scholars, we fight to defend public education and our communities. 

Visionaries

We envision a better UC, one in which every student has the mentorship and support they deserve, in which institutional memory and experience is valued, and in which every worker receives dignity and respect.

UC-AFT is fighting to strengthen job stability and provide career pathways for all teaching faculty; to improve wages and benefits so that all teaching faculty have access to healthcare and can provide for their families; and to ensure fair compensation and workload that reflects our training, experience, and contributions to the UC. With your participation, we can together build a more equitable UC, one in which every student has the mentorship and support they need, excellent teaching is valued, and every UC worker is afforded dignity and respect.

Following a historic strike authorization vote—in which members voted with an overwhelming majority of 96% to authorize a strike — UC-AFT entered impasse procedures and began mediation with President Drake’s negotiators. That means that the time for bargaining is over and the time for action is now!

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Although President Drake’s administration had agreed that we are at an impasse, they have not provided their last, best, and final, implying that they still have room to move. Help us keep the pressure on! Join an organizing committee meeting on your campus.

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University Council - American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) is the union representing over 6,800 teaching faculty working throughout the UC system. Our members hold academic appointments as lecturers, program coordinators, instructors, and supervisors of teacher education. We are skilled and experienced educators who often have the same training and credentials as our tenured colleagues and who teach 30% of credit courses at UC, including introductory level and core requirement classes at both the graduate and undergraduate level, that are critical to establishing a student’s academic career.

A fair contract for UC teaching faculty would:

• Protect teaching faculty from mass layoffs in the short-run and, in the long-run, establish clear and transparent  career pathways, thereby transforming teaching “gigs” into more stable, full-time jobs.
• Support students by ensuring instructional continuity, so that they can continue to learn from the skilled and experienced teachers and mentors they know and trust.
• Contribute to our local and regional economies by improving wages, expanding access to healthcare, and allowing teaching faculty and their families to establish roots in cities and neighborhoods close to UC campus.

Every lecturer deserves a contract that includes:

1. Reasonable workload standards that eliminate uncompensated workload and address lecturers’ unpaid service and professional development.
2. Transparent, consistent appointment processes that bring job stability through rehiring preferences, unbiased evaluations, multi-year appointments for pre-six lecturers, and accessible pathways to promotion to Senior Lecturer for continuing lecturers.
3. Fair compensation that reflects our training, experience, and contributions to our university and will keep up with the rising cost of living in California.

School Funding Next Year

From the Lawyer’s Desk

Monroe, LA – This month, the Monroe Federation of Teachers and School Employees (MFTSE) will donate nearly 2,000 books to Monroe City elementary and middle schools in honor of National Reading Month. Donations will begin March 1^st and the Federation will distribute at least 100 books to each school.

“We hope that these books will promote reading and student literacy in our schools. The students of Monroe City Schools are our future. What’s a better way to give back than to donate books,” said MFTSE President Sandie Lollie.

MFTSE worked with the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, the American Federation of Teachers, and First Book Marketplace 

According to Commonwealth Magazine, “Riley is looking to leverage state regulations to push districts to bring students back to the classroom.