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School Officials Table Vote on Employee Handbook

The School Board plans to meet Tuesday to hear final concerns from the teacher's union on the employee handbook. The board's president says they plan to vote on the handbook at a June 26 meeting.

Shorewood school officials agreed to table voting on an employee handbook Tuesday, allowing them to hear more concerns from the district teacher’s union.

Officials will meet next Tuesday to take up the concerns from the Shorewood Education Association, but School Board President Rob Reinhoffer said the board wouldn’t vote until their meeting on June 26.

“We have reached consensus on the vast majority of topics that are contained in here,” said Superintendent Blane McCann of the process of building the handbook. “It’s a very good process to have these types of conversations and I think we have a good product. I will say we didn’t expect to reach consensus on everything.”

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Since October, McCann has been meeting with secretarial and teacher union representatives in a collaborative process to create a new employee handbook that will set work rules on matters that used to be negotiated with the teachers union, such as benefits, hours and among other items.

An who said there were too many gray areas.

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, even though the district is no longer required to negotiate with the teachers under state law.


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