The Federation office is closed from Monday, December 20th until Monday, January 3rd.  If you have an emergency and need to get in touch with us, please email Brant at brant.osborn@stftse.com.

Have a safe and happy holiday!

Please take the time to answer this survey about splitting classes. This survey is primarily intended for elementary school teachers, but feel free to take it if it applies to your school as well.

Splitting classes is defined as: dividing the students from one teacher's class and sending them to two or more other classes to be supervised.

We are gathering that this is a wide spread practice and we are viewing it as a contract violation according to:

Section 9:25 - Relief from Nonprofessional Duties---(f) Employees shall not be required to monitor/teach another employee's class while teaching

The Federation office is closed this week (November 22-26) in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We are thankful for a lot this year, but we are mostly thankful for our members. Without dues paying members, the work of the union would not be possible. Enjoy your break, relax and rest.

*If you have an emergency and need to get in touch with us, you can do so by messaging us on Facebook or emailing stephanie.underwood1@stftse.com.

Brant, the Federation president, has put together a short video explaining the potential impact if the millage renewals fail. You can see this video by clicking here. Please make a plan to vote for all four millage renewals tomorrow, Saturday, November 13th.

Dear Members,

I know you are all probably counting down to the Thanksgiving holidays just like us, as it has been a long beginning of the school year.  As the Federation continues to work hard towards improving wages, benefits, and working conditions for all employees, we believe it is also important to offer events that will help us build community with the goal of building a stronger union.  Therefore, we have a couple of events available to members to help us have fun, relax, and get to know each other a little more. 

The first event is a virtual BINGO hosted by the St. Tammany Federation

 “Health & Welfare- Open Enrollment”

October 6th – December 5th, 2025 is open enrollment for dental insurance. Now is the time to make changes or sign up for a higher dental plan. You can find out more information about the benefits and different plans by clicking here. Please note that the prices that are listed are per month, so you would have to divide by two to get the amount per paycheck.

If you don’t need to make changes to your plan, you don’t have to do anything.

One of our main goals is to add value to your membership by adding more local perks. One idea that is in the developing stages is to help our members learn more about managing debt, purchasing real estate, and building wealth. The local real estate team: Stephen McCarthy and Judy Camhout have partnered with us on this enterprise. This short survey is intended to help us design workshops based on members interest. We appreciate you taking the time out to answer these few questions.

https://forms.gle/pxuyxqJpLDGpm8Qx7

There are two different ways that you may be able to receive assistance for Hurrican Ida relief. 

LFT and AFT partnered together to give out hardship grants.  You can apply for the grant by clicking here.

Union Plus has came up with an option for a $500 disaster relief grant.  See if you qualify by clicking here.

In the wake of Hurricane Ida, St. Tammany Parish Superintendent Frank Jabbia stated at a school board meeting that he was confident that instructional minutes would be waived. The communications director for STPSB, Meredith Mendez, subsequently stated “at this time, we are not revising our calendar because we are hopeful the state will provide waivers to the required instructional seat time given the widespread damage across the state.”

State Superintendent Cade Brumley had a different stance, though, hoping “that systems would be able to make calendar adjustments so that the children could get