The type of leaves available depends on the reason the employee is unable to work. Click here to view the flow chart Human Resources distributed regarding COVID-19 Leave.

Covid-19 Update #6 - Information and Employee Leave

We want to thank all of you who helped contribute to CFT/CFOP’s “Our Lives, Our Safety” Resolution on Reopening Schools”! It is the result of over 1,000 hours of focus groups, survey responses, dialogue and research, and offers a framework of the concerns you shared about CPS employees and students safely returning to school given the deadly nature of COVID-19.

In the days following the transition to remote instruction because of the pandemic, we were concerned about the lack of transparency and consistency of communications coming from the District. We decided that a robust plan to ensure the

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT SELLERS: 

The COVID-19 virus has created an unprecedented safety issue for us who work with children in schools, and it is critical we prepare NOW for a safety if we are to return to in-school instruction in August.

CFT has convened a “CFT COVID-19 Taskforce” that will culminate in an “Our Lives, Our Safety Resolution” that will be delivered to District leadership. It will include CFT’s list of conditions that we deem necessary before teachers and students can safely return to in-school instruction by the start of the 2020-2021 academic year.

We are collecting

CPS Must Plan Now for a Safe 2020-21 School Year

Cincinnati’s teachers were left heartbroken when Governor DeWine decided last week that school buildings would stay closed for the rest of this school year.

Since the sudden Mid-March closure order, teachers have worked with their principals and team members to provide distance learning. It’s been challenging for students, their parents, and teachers accustomed to the critical face to face interactions that come only in a classroom.  But teachers had hoped there would be at least some opportunity to reconnect with their students face-to-face

CFT COVID-19 TASKFORCE

#OurLivesOurSafety

Executive Summary

(Drafted April 23, 2020)

PURPOSE: The COVID-19 virus pandemic is a public health emergency. It is critical that the Cincinnati Public School (CPS) District ensure that we are doing everything in our power to keep our students, their families, and our staff safe. The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT) has convened a rapid response taskforce that will delineate a set of necessary conditions that we will recommend to the Board of Education in order for staff and students to safely return to in-school instruction for the 2020-2021

On April 22, 2020, Paul McDole (Human Resources Director) issued a statement via email regarding the Governor's State-wide mandate that schools remain closed through the rest of the school year, and the expectations of CPS Employees' work schedules.

Read about it here

Grading, Promotion and Retention: Coronavirus (COVID–19) FAQ

On March 12, 2020, Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton ordered all Ohio’s public, community and private K-12 school buildings to be closed to students due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) state of emergency. This document is intended to help school districts as they make a good faith effort to best determine, to the extent practicable, how to issue grades and provide feedback to students in alignment with their local board of education grading policies.  

How should school districts approach