Category: Action Alert

ESPs play a critical role in student success. We can’t support our students if there are critical shortages of support staff. For a successful pandemic recovery plan, we need to attract and retain ESPs. We work to make sure students are safe, healthy, engaged, supported, and challenged, and we are critical to the success of our students and our schools! Will you stand with your coworkers to demand better for Jeffco students?

Today at 5pm, the district declared an impasse and canceled next week’s bargaining sessions. Impasse means that at least one bargaining team believes no further progress can be made by continued bargaining. In this case, the district believes they are unable to make progress by continuing to bargain financials with JESPA. JESPA’s bargaining team has

Last Thursday, Jeffco proposed a temporary step increase for step eligible employees that would end in August of 2021. We immediately heard from hundreds of members who felt the district’s offer was insulting since many people aren’t eligible for a step and the increase would be temporary. We know that ESPs are vitally important to