Issue link: http://educator.cta.org/i/1539593
By the Numbers Sac City Teachers Association wins: 30%: Amount educator wages have increased since the 2022 strike. $137,839: Base pay for K–12 educator in SCUSD with 20 years experience 7 of 7: Number of SCUSD school board members endorsed by SCTA 500: Ratio of students to school psychologists, school nurses and school social workers by 2027–28 $90: Daily overage penalty if ratios exceed 500- to-1 for the above service providers $418: Daily pay for SCTA substitute teachers by end of contract (99% of sub assignments filled districtwide) 83: Number of reading intervention teachers added in district elementary schools in accordance with SCTA's demands in fallout from 2022 strike $9: Amount donated per SCTA member per month to the local's political fund, which supports their extensive electoral efforts 24: Class size limit for SCUSD K–3 classes; intermediate classes are capped at 30 students; and core classes at the secondary level are limited to 32 students, by contract. 15: Caseload limit for elementary special day class (SDC) mild/moderate teachers. Secondary SDC mild/moderate limit is set at 16, while SDC moderate/severe is capped at 16. 2: CTA Human Rights Awards won over the past decade by SCTA, for their work to make SCUSD a Safe Haven District and efforts to promote civil and human rights awareness throughout the school district. Keep up with SCTA by following their website at sacteachers.org or on Facebook/Instagram at @SacTeachers. Watch the short video about the 2022 SCTA strike at bit.ly/4fzln6D. Major victories include: • Wage increases that make Sac City educators the highest paid in the county and are intended to attract speech language pathologists, school nurses, school psychologists and other specialists. • Contractual staffing ratios and overages for school social workers, school psychologists and school nurses. • Additional staff for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) implementation at 10 elementary schools. • Contractual guarantee that SCTA must approve any use of outside contractors to do any credentialed bargaining unit work. • Addition of at least one reading intervention teacher at every elementary school and two at schools with more than 250 students. Additionally, the union won landmark language on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Sac City public schools — a contrac- tual guarantee that AI "may not be used to replace bargaining unit work or perform bargaining unit work without the expressed written agreement of SCTA," perhaps the first such contract vic- tory and definitely the strongest for teachers unions nationwide. "e contracting-out win doubled the amount of school nurses we have and reduced outside contracts by about $25 million, which went back into the bargaining unit," Fisher says. "Every victory has come with impacts that helped build our union. Our wins in ratios and caseloads for service providers meet national standards, ensuring our students have access to the services they need, provided by permanent Sac City educators who are invested in the success of every student in our district." "Our struggle persists for the resources and services all Sac- ramento students deserve," Davis Milevsky continues. "With so many threats to our public schools, students and families, we must continue organizing and fighting to protect our communi- ties and defend public education — at the bargaining table and in the streets, when necessary." From the video about the 2022 SCTA strike. 39 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 5