Date: June 17, 2015 at 9:20:40 PM PDT

Dear West Valley Elementary School Teachers,

On behalf of the Superintendent, I would like to express sincere appreciation for your forbearance as District leadership has spent considerable time collecting and weighing feedback from various West Valley stakeholders regarding how best to ensure and support the school community's educationally-related programs.

Attached please find a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) reached this afternoon with CEA regarding the certificated staff transfer of West Valley teachers to other school sites within the District.  To be clear, all West Valley classroom teachers will be transferred to other District schools, effective the 2015-2016 school year.  The reason(s) for your transfer include one or more of the criteria listed in the CUSD-CEA Agreement Article 6.4.5. If you wish to conference with the District, please let us know of your desire to do so.  You can schedule a conference by calling Nancy Mak at 408-252-3000, ext. 218.

The District welcomes your response to the MOU's provision regarding your submission of written preferences regarding your new school and/or grade-level teaching assignment for the 2015-2016 school year. West Valley staff members have already provided this information.  However, if you wish to amend the school sites and grade-level preferences you have already provided, please do so by Friday.  For teachers who have given the District a preference list of school site assignments as West Valley only, please know that your preference for West Valley only is not an option.

Thank you for your understanding and professional reflections during this challenging transition.  District leadership is eager to assign West Valley teachers in site/grade-level assignments that are a match given the CUSD-CEA Agreement Article 6.4.5.

Warm regards to all,

Nancy B. Johnson, Associate Superintendent
Human Resources