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Amherst teachers union lays out demands for future talks
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Modified: 12/10/2020 7:37:34 PM
AMHERST Several concerns about safely returning to school buildings, outlined in an existing memorandum of agreement, will need to be resolved before the teachers’ union gives consideration to negotiating changes to this deal, according to a statement issued this week.
The Amherst Pelham Education Association on Wednesday wrote that renegotiation of the terms for returning to in-person learning with school officials can’t occur until at least three aspects of the memorandum are addressed.
Those issues are a lack of communication from school officials about whether air-testing results in all Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham regional school buildings have complied with American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers standards; no information about whether retesting will be done on spaces that previously failed to