Warwick Teacher Vaccination Clinics Start March 13
By: Warwick Post Staff on March 10, 2021 in COVID-19, Schools
WARWICK, RI — The City of Warwick will begin Warwick teacher vaccination clinics for public, private and parochial schools, including staff, along with licensed child care workers, starting March 13. […]
Warwick Teachers Picket City Hall, Call for Contract Resolution
By: Rob Borkowski on September 10, 2017 in Schools
On Sept. 5, Warwick Teachers Union (WTU) membership met and voted to reject the Warwick School Committee’s Aug. 23 “final offer,” then rallied about 600 teachers for another picket of City Hall Sept. 7.
Warwick Teachers Union, School Department Differ on Contract Impasse Points
By: Rob Borkowski on August 31, 2017 in Schools
WARWICK, RI — A new contract between the Warwick Teachers Union and Warwick School Department, overdue since 2015, remains in the aspirational realm after the union rejected the district’s latest […]
Teacher ‘Sick Out’ Threat Delivers 10 Percent of Teaching Staff Absent
By: Rob Borkowski on October 28, 2016 in Schools
Eighty-three teachers called out sick Thursday, the day after Superintendent Phil Thornton sent parents an email alerting them to rumors of a district-wide “sick out,” an appropriate move, he said, to apprise parents of the potential for a disrupted school day.
Labor Board: School Committee Must Abide by Old Teacher’s Contract
By: Rob Borkowski on June 27, 2016 in Schools
The State Labor Relations Board has ruled the School Committee must honor the expired Teachers Union contract until a new one is agreed on, which would limit the number of teachers laid off this year to 20, not the 65 the board has announced it will let go.