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JFT Teacher/PSRP Newsletter

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JFT Update: December 13, 2020

General Membership Meeting

Jefferson Federation of Teachers & School Employees is holding the December General Membership Meeting on Zoom:

Thursday, December 17th

5:30 P.M.

If you are a JFT member, click here to register for this virtual meeting.

FROM THE LAWYER’S DESK

By: Larry Samuel, JFT General Counsel

COVID-19 Q&A

JFT members have asked excellent questions about how the school district is supposed to handle certain situations involving COVID-19. This is the first of a series of articles responding to the questions. If you have additional questions, email: info@jft.org.

Useful CDC References: COVID-19 in Schools

These are Guidance from CDC concerning COVID and school settings.

Operating schools during COVID-19: CDC's Considerations

Interim Guidance for Case Investigation and Contact Tracing in K-12 Schools

Screening K-12 Students for Symptoms of COVID-19: Limitations and Considerations

November Newsletter

Ask BESE for an Instructional Minutes Waiver for 2020-2021

A few members have questioned why 30 minutes are being added to the school day. Here’s the reason: Louisiana law requires all school districts to have a certain number of minutes of instruction each year.

Last school year, those requirements were waived because of COVID, but so far this year, the State has not issued any such waiver. You can help address this issue by sending an email to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and Superintendent Brumley to ask them to waive the traditional instructional minutes requirement for this year.

Click here to send an email now!

Patience—counseled by former Vice President Joe Biden all election week as Americans waited for votes to be counted—finally paid off Nov. 7, four days after Election Day, when Biden won in Pennsylvania and gained enough Electoral College votes to acquire a new title: president-elect. AFT President Randi Weingarten says the union’s leaders and members “can’t wait to get started” on the work ahead “with an administration that will embrace and fight for the values we hold dear.”

Early voting is Oct. 16-27 (excluding Sunday, Oct. 18 and Sunday, Oct. 25) from 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

Generally, your early voting polling location will differ from your election day polling location, so it's important to look up your voting sites at www.geauxvote.com.

Election day is Tuesday, November 3rd. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Please click here to see the AFL-CIO/JFT endorsed candidates and amendments.

For additional information visit www.aftvotes.org.