CVEU Campaign to Protect CAVA Fresno Charter

CAVA-Fresno's charter is at risk of non-renewal due to administrative errors made during the renewal process. This situation could result in over 1500 students losing their school and seventy-five educators losing their jobs.

CVEU is encouraging ALL STAFF to take a moment to ask the Fresno board to renew the CAVA-Fresno charter and preserve stability for students and staff. We’ve created a short letter you can send using Action Network—it takes less than two minutes. You can also use this form to write your own letter to tell your personal CAVA story! Focus messages on personal connections to the school, how CAVA has helped students and staff, and what they’d lose if it closed. See CVEU’s Talking Points templates here for ideas.

🔗 Take Action Here:

Write a letter to urge for CAVA Fresno charter renewal.

You’re also welcome to share the link with CAVA-Fresno families and community members you have good relationships with who may want to speak up in support of CAVA-Fresno.

To help with questions, we’ve prepared two information sheets:

📘 CVEU Info Sheet for CAVA-Fresno Educators
📄 CAVA-Fresno Family Information Sheet

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to president@cveu.org if you need clarification. Thank you for standing with your colleagues and your students during this uncertain time.

Bargaining Updates

CVEU and CAVA reached an agreement on the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). CVEU-CAVA Members voted to ratify the new contract. CAVA School Boards will vote to approve the CBA at the end of June. The new contract will take effect for the 2025 school year. Wins include a year-end bonus for teachers, up to 3 years of service credit for previous teaching experience for all teachers, and pay increases to the salary schedule.

CVEU and Insight are not in a bargaining year. However, the team was able to secure a year-end bonus for teachers and up to 3 years of service credit for previous teaching experience for all teachers.

CVEU and IQ are still in active negotiations for the 2025-2026 school year.

2024-2025 CVEU Goals

We want to make CAVA and Insight schools that ensure the success of students and teachers.

To continue to grow our effectiveness and solidarity, we have made the following goals:

Association: Increase active membership
Communication: Increase interaction with internal and external stakeholders (all members, legislators, charter schools, school board members, etc.)
Bargaining: Actively pursue unilateral changes, collective action on bad practices, educating members about the contract

Upcoming CVEU Events

Join our CVEU family for a short toast to the end of the year!

When: Tuesday, June 10th from 4:00-4:15 PM

CVEU General Member Meetings 4pm, Last Tuesday
- No Meetings in June or July for General Members.
CVEU New Hire Orientation
- Attend one meeting Monday at 3pm. See your welcome email for more information! :)