CUSD should prioritize the future of our community by ensuring our students have qualified, certificated teachers.

CUSD’s low pay and decreasing benefits mean high turnover in both veteran and newer teachers/counselors. CUSD’s salary and benefit package is the lowest in the county.

• Teachers and counselors received no increased compensation last year, despite a 6.56% Cost of Living Adjustment from the State of California.  This year the COLA is 8.22%, which is what CUTA is asking for its members.

• CUSD is choosing to decrease health benefits for teachers.  CUTA is asking for all employees to have at least employee + 1 health coverage.

• CUSD wants to decrease teacher time for prep and collaboration, while also increasing class sizes. This harms our students.

• Twice in three years CUSD has undergone fiscal review by the state's Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team. CUSD is one of only 2 districts evaluated in 2020, which had to be reviewed again in 2023. The report found that concerns raised in the 2020 report were not addressed and that district office's procedures had actually worsened. For more information read the 2020 and 2023 reports and news coverage from the HMB Review. 

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