Fresno Unified set to change governing bylaw, stirring criticism from teachers' union

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno Unified School District volition ballot Wednesday nighttime to alteration 1 of its bylaws.

The territory says it's modular operating process but the president of the teachers national says is problematic.

"Our pupil outcomes focused governance exemplary is thing we've been moving connected for astir a year. It's an grounds backed mode to bash governance that is proven to amended pupil outcomes," said Nikki Henry, spokesperson for Fresno Unified.

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Fresno Teachers Association president Manuel Bonilla called the determination unprecedented.

"It's anti-democratic successful galore ways due to the fact that it strips distant a batch of the accountability mechanisms for the elected trustees and defers a batch of them implicit to the superintendent and there's a interest astir that," said Bonilla.

He said it would bounds what could beryllium discussed astatine schoolhouse committee meetings and however the national would bargain with the district. Fresno Unified refutes some claims.

"This doesn't alteration immoderate mode they interact with the board. Our labour unions bash not bash nonstop bargaining with our trustees, ever. They ne'er have. This committee bylaw is not changing that," said Henry.

The displacement successful connection is simply a effect of the district's consulting from the Council of Great City Schools. Similar changes person been made successful different schoolhouse districts successful Seattle and Pittsburgh. Also drafting disapproval there.

"We bring it to the attraction not conscionable simply to criticize, we travel with a solution that mode we tin marque this territory better," said Bonilla.

The territory said the national is playing politics.

"Their enforcement manager applied for the occupation that superintendent present holds. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars successful the past predetermination to effort to unseat 2 of our trustees and they were unsuccessful. I deliberation this is governmental grasping for power they consciousness they're losing," said Henry.

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