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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno Unified School District and the Fresno Teachers Association are astatine likelihood erstwhile again, aft the latest claims by the FTA, which impeach the territory of lacking transparency with educators and the nationalist during the monthslong hunt to regenerate erstwhile Superintendent Bob Nelson.
Fresno Teachers Association President Manuel Bonilla claimed to YourCentralValley.com this week that they were near wholly retired of the discussion.
"This signifier of a deficiency of transparency, a deficiency of assemblage involvement, truly is the civilization that we're warring against successful Fresno Unified," helium said.
However, Fresno Unified Chief Communications Officer Nikki Henry says those accusations are wholly false. She says determination person been dozens of assemblage forums and committee meetings that the FTA and nationalist were invited to, and encouraged to enactment in.
She says determination are besides monthly conferences betwixt FTA and territory leaders that person occurred since some sides agreed to a corporate bargaining statement in October 2023.
"Whenever they telephone and privation to person dependable oregon beryllium heard connected anything, our leaders driblet everything to marque that clip for them. So, the collaboration is ongoing and regular," Henry said.
Bonilla says that they officially asked the hunt and its candidates, beryllium taken into the nationalist eye, with a municipality hallway conscionable recently.
"We person publically said that we are consenting to wage for and big a nationalist municipality hall. This is thing that is done crossed the country," said Bonilla. "That way, the community, not conscionable our educators, but the assemblage tin beryllium involved."
Henry says the inquire was denied. She shared however they decided aboriginal connected successful the process that they would not bash one, arsenic they wanted to promote arsenic galore candidates arsenic imaginable from crossed the federation to use and consciousness comfy successful the process.
But still, she says they tried to marque accommodations for the FTA. They adjacent went arsenic acold arsenic flying their hunt advisor successful aboriginal to conscionable with national reps astatine their regularly scheduled gathering this past Monday.
"That's going to beryllium close earlier our interviews. That's going to beryllium caller successful our minds truthful that we tin person our interrogation questions, effort to bespeak what our teachers are asking for, what FTA is asking for, and they declined," said Henry.
It's a determination Henry says has confused the district, particularly with the inquire coming conscionable weeks earlier they program to finalize a declaration with their caller superintendent.
"What it sounds similar to maine is much of a prime not to prosecute done a year-long process and present astatine the 11th hour, utilizing this arsenic an accidental for their governmental docket to effort to spark division, to effort to spark doubt," she said.
Henry says they program to implicit the process by the extremity of April oregon aboriginal May.
