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Watching Howard Stern thanking President Biden for his incredible leadership & compassion is EVEN better than listening to it. Take a minute to watch & then share this video far & wide. From all of us: Thank you, President Biden.

Thank you Assemblyman Pat Burke and Senator Gallivan for helping restore foundation aid to the West Seneca CSD to over
1.4 Million dollars! NYSUT WNY Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 Joe Cantafio Nicki Richardson

Thank you Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 and all of NYSUT for keeping up the fight to Fix Tier 6! #solidarity #publicschoolsuniteus

Thank you Senator Gallivan and Assemblyman Pat Burke for continuing the fight to #FixTier6 and getting the FAS changed for Tier 6 public employees across the state. Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 NYSUT WNY Nicki Richardson NYSUT Ron Gross

You can give me 20 school vouchers...it doesn't matter. The only 'choice' I have is a Catholic School 56 miles away. There is no choice in rural America.

Stop the bullshit and fund our local public schools.

Clearly the ⁦West Seneca CSD⁩ doesn’t understand that #PublicSchoolsUniteUs . Community is united. BOE/Super won’t even answer ?s, mtg in secrecy, won’t wait for NYS Budget. ⁦West Seneca TA⁩ ⁦NYSUT⁩ ⁦Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈⁩ wgrz.com/mobile/article…

Interesting development here in West Seneca.

After the public comment period the board had a 5 minute recess.

Then came back and then went into executive session to “discuss an employment matter.”

The vote to adopt the proposed budget still needs to happen. @wgrz

After a half hour, we’re back. @wgrz

WGRZ And the board has unanimously adopted the budget. The public will vote to approve or not on May 21.

The board refused interviews after the vote.

They also didn’t seem to know why they went into a second executive session either.

Story at 11. @wgrz

Hamburg Schools continues to work with staff and community but West Seneca CSD BOE and Dr. Rabey disregard all stakeholders for the 2024-25 budget and cut 40 plus positions. All BOE and Dr. Rabey decline interviews with press. NYSUT WNY NYSUT Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 Viri Pettersen

Union Strong💪
West Seneca TA Joe Cantafio NYSUT WNY

Hamburg listened and is willing to work through this. West Seneca refuses.

“to collaboratively solve the challenges that lie ahead” 🤔 What a great idea. Seems to be missing…

TAKE ACTION: Tell our lawmakers to fix APPR! Restore local control to teacher evaluations and bring back the joy of teaching and learning to our schools. mac.nysut.org/action/893

West Seneca TA West Seneca CSD Tom DiNapoli

#solidarity

These cuts hurt families without saving any taxpayers money. NYSUT Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 Viri Pettersen NYS AFL-CIO // #UnionStrong

West Seneca TA VP Galley said the last time the district had significant layoffs, bargaining units & admin sat together to make sure the cuts were as minimal as possible. This time that’s not been the case,” NYSUT Viri Pettersen Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 WNYALF, AFL-CIO NYS AFL-CIO // #UnionStrong #PublicSchoolsUniteUs

West Seneca CSD After an increase in state aid, “reduction of expenditures is the only thing left” to bridge budget gap, Board Member Vincent Vanderlip said. Teachers are people not expenditures! There are plenty of “expenditures” that would save money without hurting families.