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Vol. 5 No. 32 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N„ Y « 11735. Thursday, March 28, 1968
SCHOOL BOARD JEACHERS
REACH AGREEMENT The District 22 Board of Education has reached an agreement
with the Classroom Teachers Association. Negotiations
have been going on since December it was learned this week.
All 80 points under negotiation, 35 of which were demands by
the CTA and 45 were demands of the Board of Education were
settled amicably, according to Trustee Bernard Lang, who represented
the school board in the discussion.
All that remains is some final editing of contract revisions.
The new starting salary for teachers will be $ 6,750 replacing
the present starting salary of $ 6,300. Teachers with a masters
degree will be paid at the Nassau County median or slightly
above the median salary, according to Lang. The teachers
raise amounts to an increase of about seven percent.
According to Lang, " The Farmingdale Board of Education
did not have to await the enactment of the Taylor Law to begin
to negotiate with the employees of the school district. For the
past two years we have had a written contract with the Classroom
Teachers Association. This contract has been hailed as
a model document representative of what can be achieved as
a result of good faith bargaining. The New York State School
Boards Association recently purchased 500 copies of this
contract for distribution throughout the state for use in workshops
on collective bargaining. With this background it should
come as a surprise that we have been able to conclude negotiations
with CTA for 1968- 69 school year."
At the beginning of the negotiations process in December
the School Board presented 45 demands for contract revision.
CTA in turn requested about 35 revisions including salary
and various fringe benefits. The final agreement represented
a compromise which will result in a contract which is a further
improvement over the existing document, according to Lang.
" The School Board demonstrated in its negotiation that it
recognized the primary importance of teachers in the educational
process. As a result the contract establishes working
conditions which will further support the existing high
teacher morale and a salary schedule which will hold and
attract the most experienced teachers," Lang said.
Farmingdale Contingent Joins March On Albany
Contingents made up of 40
Plainedge, 12 Massapequa and
nine Farmingdale school officials,
teachers and residents made
up part of this Tuesday's ' March
on Albany' urging the passage
of an $ 800 per pupil State Aid
bill that was being considered
by the New York State Legislature.
The local groups joined others
from 17 counties in the State
who responded to an urgent invitation
from a newly formed Long
Island group called ' Congress on
the Educational Crisis' made up
of school board officials, educators,
PTA members and citizen
groups.
Plainedge School BoardTrust-ee,
Michael Lanzarone, co-chairman
of the spearheading
CEC organization and Nassau
Suffolk School Board Association
Finance Chairman, A. Terry
Weathers of Farmingdale were
joined by the Long Island American
Federation of Teachers
Council who also strongly backed
the upping of the present $ 660
to $ 800 pupil formula contained
in the Dominick - Cottier bill
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under consideration.
School District 23 Board President,
J. Lewis Ames and President
of the Nassau Suffolk School
Boards Association urged Massapequa
administrators and
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In conjunction with National ORT Day, Mayor Joseph Zureck
proclaimed last Wednesday as ORT Day in Farmingdale. Accepting
the proclamation are Mrs. Joseph Russo and Mrs. San-lord
Fishman president and vice president of the local group.
Laurelton Street was changed to ORT Boulevard for the occasion.
A parking meter between two ' no stopping* signs on the north
side of Conklin Street near Main, has puzzled motorists on
whether to park at the meter or not. A one car parking-area
for the police wound up with two when the State Department
of Public Works misplaced the sign. State officials
have been notified to relocate the sign to the other side of the
meter. Autoists should not be tagged in the interim, according
to Village Clerk James McKenna. pboto by <•";
