September 29, 2021

Know Your Contract: What Do I Do if I Need to Isolate or Quarantine?

Under the terms of our PAT-PPS contract and our Safety Letter of Agreement (LOA), educators should not suffer any loss of pay or accrued benefits if you are forced to quarantine or isolate following a COVID-19 exposure or illness. You can now use “Quarantine” as “reason” in Frontline. Your school’s timekeeper also has a code for “Quarantine Leave.”

If you have had to quarantine or isolate, and it was coded as sick leave or other accrued leave, please ask your building’s timekeeper to correct it. If this doesn’t work, please contact Peter Brogan ([email protected]).

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President's Message: Bargaining for Smaller Classes

September 29, 2021

Dear Educator, For years, our union has been fighting for smaller class sizes and caseloads. Many of you remember organizing with educators across the state to walk out of school on May 8, 2019, demanding permanent, statewide funding to support lower class sizes. There...

Know Your Contract: What to Do When a Student Won’t Wear a Mask

September 29, 2021

The PAT office has received numerous calls asking what to do when building administration will not enforce our safety agreement that requires students to wear masks. The answer is straightforward. We need affected PAT members to document the problem, so track the number of...