CCISD votes to close all 7 campuses up for consolidation<\/a><\/p>\nAs the district moves forward with its plan, many employees are being reassigned to different campuses across the district.<\/p>\n
CCISD Chief Human Resources Officer Debbie Lara says the district has already made significant progress in placing affected employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have since reassigned about 360 of those 420 employees. The others we are still working through assignments for for the new school year. We have 11 right now that we are still working with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Lara says employees impacted by consolidation must still formally apply for positions but are being given priority consideration.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe met with each of the staff members at each campus and assured them that everyone had priority rights for the new school year, which assured that they have a job,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
However, Nancy Vera with the Corpus Christi American Federation of Teachers says reassignment does not necessarily mean employees will keep the same roles they previously held.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen they have to figure out, well I\u2019m Department Chair, am I going to be the Department Chair at this other school? Or is that department chair at that other school who is already there going to have it over me?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Vera says that uncertainty can take a toll on staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cCauses anxiety, angst, and all sorts of things in the minds of the teachers. That’s the problem with consolidation and that’s the problem with consolidating faculty and staff,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Lara says the district has safeguards in place to help employees who may be reassigned into lower-paying roles.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing identified for a reassignment that would result in a lowered pay grade position. We freeze their pay at their current annual salary for one year to allow them some time, to allow us some time as well to identify a comparable job,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
District leaders say they are confident in their ability to place staff members and will continue working through remaining assignments. CCISD will also host recruitment days, with the next scheduled for April 25 at Carroll High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Corpus Christi Independent School District is providing new details on how its ongoing campus consolidations will affect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6601,155,95479,157,17118,156,95478,3360,95477],"class_list":{"0":"post-252433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-consolidation","9":"tag-corpus-christi","10":"tag-corpus-christi-american-federation-of-teachers","11":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","12":"tag-corpus-christi-independent-school-district","13":"tag-corpus-christi-news","14":"tag-debbie-lara","15":"tag-employees","16":"tag-staff-members"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}