Random points....

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On Postings and transfers.... there is a meeting scheduled for Thursday morning at 10:00 am to try and start to clean up the potential issues ... from the rescinding of transfers to the continuing/temporary status of some of the postings... (see www.elkvalley.net/fdta or SD5's website to see the current crop of postings....)

SD5 senior management has met with some community groups in Cranbrook, and the issue of future student numbers was discussed - raising concerns over the future of schooling in Sd5.

Transfers and lay off news

The FDTA saw two teachers apply for and get granted a teacher exchange (Jaffray - Fernie assignments) for one year. The process worked this way: the two teachers involved approached their respective principals, and then once they had the approval of their principals, they then applied to the HR department for the exchange. The HR department approved the exchange for one school year (as per the CA).

The two teachers will return to their original assignments/schools at the end of the next school year, as per the CA.

In the Valley, 7 retirements prevented 7 lay offs. There were 2.75 FTE lay offs this year and one board initiated transfer, and one teacher initiated transfer. A number of people saw their assignments change for next year as well.

June 9th should see the announcement for all administrative shuffles and appointments, then on Tuesday June 10th we should see the 'first round' of posting come out before noon.

Cranbrook saw a similar scenario to us, with many board initiated transfers between schools, and a similar reduction to ours in staffing at their Learning Centre (they lost 1.75 positions to our drop of 1.25 FTE positions).