Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Students around the district are collecting items for those in need in the tri-state area.
The Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association is sponsoring a New Jersey school district, sending needed items to a community that was displaced by Superstorm Sandy. According to Tara Hueston, fifth grade teacher at Hillside Intermediate School, the association chose to sponsor Lavallette after some members said the school district there was displaced for the remainder of the year. “They had lost everything,” she said. “I found Lavallette, which they’re now learning at St. Barbara’s Greek Orthodox Church in Toms River, on Facebook, reached out to them, told them we wanted to help, set up a donation collection time period and sent out a couple of e-blasts and a district email.” “The rest is history,” she added. Hueston said they just …
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Decision in 18 homes application expected on Monday also among top headlines.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Testimony continued with the opponents of the Lang application and concerns about possible endangered species on the land, and a decision on the application is expected at Monday's special meeting. The board of education is still seeking input on whether a stricter dress code would be appropriate for the entire district. The board of education and Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association came to an agreement on a four-year contract that includes an 8.7-percent increase in salaries over the life of the agreement. The Bridgewater-Raritan High School marching band took home top honors at a recent competition, winning its category. Candidates for township council talked about their concerns on the budget and other issues as they prepare for …
Monday, October 22, 2012
Salary increases will total 8.7 percent over the life of the agreement.
It’s official—the Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association (B-REA) and the board of education have a new contract. The new agreement will extend through June 2015, and provides for salary increases of 8.7 percent over four years. Board president Evan Lerner announced at Monday’s meeting that the B-REA had ratified two new collective bargaining agreements, formally adopting the tentative agreement reached by the two parties in August. The B-REA had been without a contract since the last one expired in June 2011. Lerner explained that there are actually two separate agreements in order to extend the contract over a four-year period, from July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2015. While salary increases over the four-year period will total 8.7 …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
With salary guides nearly complete, BOE president 'hopeful we will be at 100 percent resolved soon.'
With a tentative contract settlement in place, the Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association and board of education are waiting on completed salary guides before moving forward. Board of education president Evan Lerner said at Tuesday’s board of education meeting that they are currently in the process of completing the salary guides, which are drawn up by the union. “We review them and come to an agreement on that,” he said. “There are very small language issues, but we are pretty much done with that.” Once the guides are completed, Lerner said, they will move on to ratification by the B-REA, and then ratification by the board of education. “Everything is moving forward,” he said. “We are hopeful we will be 100 percent resolved soon.” A …
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The board of education president makes a short statement at Tuesday's meeting.
Board of education president Evan Lerner said Tuesday that he is pleased to report on the memorandum of agreement reached by the negotiations committee. The agreement was settled on by the Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association and the Board of Education during a second fact-finding session Aug. 16. As per an agreement with the fact finder, details of the contract will not be released until it has been ratified. Lerner said during Tuesday's board of education meeting that the negotiations committee is glad that the contract has been settled and they can move forward. "We are pleased and hopeful that this is behind us, and we can move forward together hand in hand," he said. Now that the memorandum of agreement has been reached, Lerner …
The next step in the process is finalizing salary guides.
Now that a contract agreement has been settled, salary guides have to be developed before the Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association can have a ratification meeting. “We won’t have a ratification meeting until we have salary guides developed and the specific contract language written that we are asking them to review and approve,” said B-REA president Steve Beatty. On Aug. 16, the B-REA and board of education announced that they had reached a contract settlement, more than a year after the teacher contract expired in June 2011. And so far at this point, Beatty said, they have put together a memorandum of agreement based on the recent meetings with the fact finder that finally resulted in a contract. “It is a document that was written by…
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Details of the contract have not yet been released.
After more than a year of negotiations, the Bridgewater-Raritan Board of Education and Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association have reached a settlement in their contract negotiations. Details on the settlement itself have not yet been released. "The BOE and B-REA negotiating teams have reached a tentative agreement that is subject to the ratification by the members and the board and subject to certain other things," said Evan Lerner, president of the board of education. "The fact finder has requested that we do not disclose the terms of the tentative agreement at present." "We're very pleased to have been able to come together and settle the contract," added Steve Beatty, B-REA president. "We will present it to our members as soon as …
Monday, July 30, 2012
The BOE and B-REA will hold another session in August.
No agreement was reached when the board of education and Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association held its first fact-finding session July 26—and another session is scheduled for this month. According to Steve Beatty, president of the B-REA, the first session was spent with the fact finder getting information about the current status of the negotiations and where both sides stand. A second fact finding session, with expected continued mediation, will be held Aug. 16. This initial fact finding process begins with mediation as the fact finder is hearing timelines, offers and perspectives from both sides. From there, the fact finder will try to reach an agreement with the two sides. The fact finder could determine after many hours that they …
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Board of Education and Education Association begin process on Thursday.
After discussions again broke down between the board of education and the Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association, the two sides will officially head into fact-finding on Thursday. "Since our last update, our representatives have continued discussions in an attempt to achieve a mutually satisfactory agreement," board of education vice president Patrick Breslin said at Tuesday's board of education meeting. "No agreement was reached." Steve Beatty, president of the B-REA and social studies teacher at Bridgewater-Raritan High School, said after the meeting there has been no more progress since the two entities attempted to hold meetings once again in early June. "There were no more full meetings with the two teams," he said. "Nothing …
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Board, teachers moving toward fact-finding.
As the board of education and the teachers move closer to a July 26 fact-finding meeting, one resident appealed to the board to “please do what you can” to settle the contract The Bridgewater-Raritan Education Association has been without a contract for 18 months. Informal talks yielded no results and the two groups are scheduled for a fact-finding session next month. While teachers and residents have crowded previous board meetings, Tuesday night’s board meeting drew only a handful of attendees. Benjamin Jones, a 31-year township resident told the board, “The difference between a good district and a great district is morale. Our students deserve the best.” “The thing that keeps the property values up is the school district," Jones said…
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