Strike and school closure updates; Board of Education and Superintendent statements

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Strike and school closure updates; Board of Education and Superintendent statementsStrike and school closure updates; Board of Education and Superintendent statementsStrike and school closure updates; Board of Education and Superintendent statements

Dear Sac City Unified Families,

After three days of school closures due to labor action, we know you are anxious for information as you plan for school, work, child care and food next week. We are too. Despite our requests to continue negotiations, SCTA has not yet responded to us with a counterproposal to resume bargaining. Our negotiations team is ready, willing, and able to bargain through the weekend in order to get our 40,000 students back to school on Monday.

Our students need an agreement to be reached so that we can safely welcome them back to school on Monday. However, if we do not receive a response, with a counterproposal, over the weekend, ALL schools will remain closed for instruction and student activities until the strike comes to an end. We will provide you with an update on Sunday evening, at the latest. 

This afternoon our SCUSD Board of Education shared the following statement on negotiations with SCTA, and Superintendent Aguilar shared the following message with our district community in English and Spanish. After providing SCTA with a proposal on March 21, followed by an enhanced proposal on March 22, our negotiations team has been standing by to receive a counterproposal from SCTA and meet at the bargaining table to reach an agreement and end the strike. For more details about this process, please visit our Negotiations FAQs

While we appreciate offers from state leaders and elected officials to participate in the negotiations process with our labor partners, this is a local issue. We do not want to circumvent the appropriate process for reaching agreement with our local labor partners through good faith collective bargaining, so will continue to work directly with SCTA to reach an agreement that allows us to end the strike and safely reopen our schools to children. 

For more information, we’ve updated our Negotiations Frequently Asked Questions with graphics and answers to your most pressing questions, such as what our most recent proposal to SCTA includes. You can also read our latest proposal in its entirety. You may also read SCUSD’s dissent as well as SCTA’s concurrence to the full fact finding report that was released on Thursday, March 17.

In the event that schools remain closed for student instruction and activities on Monday, SCUSD will continue to offer meal distribution at nine community locations. Meals will be distributed for all students for pickup between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. each day: 

  • Shiloh Baptist Church | 3565 9th Avenue
  • YMCA | 2021 W. Street
  • Boys and Girls Club | 5212 Lemon Hill
  • La Familia Maple Neighborhood Center | 3301 37th Avenue
  • Old Florin Tech School | 24th and Florin
  • Raley’s Supermarket | 4690 Freeport Blvd.
  • Raley’s Supermarket| 8391 Folsom Blvd.
  • Clayton B. Wire Campus | 5100 El Paraiso Ave
  • Floyd Farms | 401 A McClatchy Way | *Walk-up service only, no cars