Updates

Our latest newsletters and major news. We also have press coverage.

Together Across Differences

From our recent email communications: “Since our ACE Fall Forward Campaign launch on Monday, the response to our effort to make real improvements in Clovis has been terrific. We’ve been especially pleased by the fact that supporters include Clovis educators from different schools and professional backgrounds. Classroom teachers, psychologists, counselors, SLPs, nurses, SPED educators, music […]

Unfair Practice Charge #4

In this new charge, the Association of Clovis Educators (ACE) seeks to hold accountable the Faculty Senate (FS) and its recently announced newest iteration, Clovis Teachers Organization (CTO), for its own related violations of EERA, including its solicitation of unlawful assistance from Clovis Unified School District and its acceptance of unlawful assistance and preferential treatment, […]

We Need to Focus On Issues

rom our recent email communications: “Our purpose in joining together as the Association of Clovis Educators is to ensure that educators have a real and independent voice in the decisions made at CUSD. Our purpose in joining together as the Association of Clovis Educators is to ensure that educators have a real and independent voice […]

Rearranging the Deck Chairs

UPDATE: See the revised Fall Forward campaign PDF. From our recent email communications: ”As you probably know, the Faculty Senate recently announced they are changing their name to the Clovis Teachers Organization (CTO) and seeking to be recognized as the exclusive representative of Clovis educators… The name change is an effort to remain relevant and […]

How ACE Really Gets Stuff Done

From our recent email communications: “As you may have heard, Special Education SDC teachers at CUSD’s Adult Transition Program (ATP) recently won a stipend for working through their prep period. This is an important victory [that ACE leaders pushed for]. The extra period stipend we won provides great additional support to our colleagues and will […]

ACE Needs Assessment Update

In the spring of last school year, the ACE organizing committee launched a Needs Assessment to collect input from Clovis educators across CUSD on issues they are concerned about. With the new school year and the many challenges of returning to in-person instruction, the period to complete the Needs Assessment was extended. The results from […]

Union 101 Series: ACE Petition

Welcome to another installment of our ACE Union 101 series! Here, ACE Committee members Melissa Ferdinandsen and Chad Hayden break down how our union petition works.

Fresno Bee Op-Ed by Clovis Unified Parent, Noha Elbaz

A union for Clovis teachers could well improve the learning experience for students. The Association for Clovis Educators, or ACE, is working to get a real seat at the table. The idea is to form a union that can then be a part of the decision-making process to drive changes that will improve their ability […]

School Psychologist Update

In this video, you’ll hear from Melissa Saunders and Cy Hiyane, who both serve on our ACE School Psychologist Organizing Committee. Melissa and Cy discuss important updates about the work they’ve been doing since filing for union recognition back in June. Through engagement with their school psychologist colleagues, they’ve identified three main areas for improvement […]

Unfair Practice Charge #3

The Association of Clovis Educators (ACE) filed its third unfair labor practice charge (UPC) today at the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) against the CUSD administration for continued and new violations of state law that govern the rights of certificated education employees to unionize without interference or coercion from administration. The latest violations involve […]