West Sacramento Teachers Association

YOU DID IT! Happy last day of school, WSTA! 😎Wishing you all a wonderful, safe, and relaxing summer! Take some time for yourself and your families to rest and rejuvenate. You deserve it! ☀️

🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🌈

This June, we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and reaffirm our commitment to creating schools where every student, educator, and family feels safe, valued, and respected.

Public schools are strongest when every person is welcomed for who they are. Pride Month is a time to honor the courage, contributions, and diversity of LGBTQ+ individuals while continuing the work of building inclusive learning environments for all.

We stand with our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members—not just this month, but every day.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

On Thursday afternoon, WSTA celebrated the end of our school year at Kick’n Mule. We had great food, amazing drinks, gave out some awesome raffle prizes, and enjoyed mingling with our fellow members. What a great way to wrap up the school year and celebrate a successful contract negotiation! Thank you to everyone who attended! 🎉🎊

We are blown away by the support from our WSTA members and community!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the WSTA High School Scholarship Raffle, we raised $2,861 to support our students and their future goals. This is the most we have EVER raised in a raffle! 100% of the proceeds will go directly to high school scholarships. ❤️📚

Your generosity helps us invest directly in our local students. We appreciate everyone who bought raffle tickets this year. We will be sending out a list of raffle winners tomorrow. Thank you for your support and congratulations to all of our winners! 🍎

Today, we honor and remember the brave service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

As educators and union members, we recognize the importance of service, community, and protecting the freedoms that make public education possible. We are grateful to those who gave their lives in service to others, and we hold their families and loved ones in our thoughts today.

Wishing everyone a safe and meaningful Memorial Day. 🇺🇸

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers and mother figures from WSTA! 💐

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to the amazing and dedicated teachers of WSTA! Your dedication to this profession and commitment to West Sacramento students creates a lasting impact every day. Thank you for all that you do! 🍎

Last night, WSTA Vice President Jessica Pagan and President Doug Knepp were honored to present $1,000 scholarships to two very deserving students, Clayton Pour and Dafne Portillo Palacios (not pictured).

They are 2 of the 4 WUSD students who earned scholarships this year through our WSTA scholarship application process. They wrote heartfelt short essays about what public education has meant to them and their plans for higher education and beyond.

Both students were very deserving of these scholarships and we look forward to see them achieve their future endeavors.

Congratulations Clayton and Dafne! 💫

WE DID IT!

Last night, the fabulous WSTA negotiations team met with the district for another fact finding session.

After a full day (and night!), a tentative agreement was reached!

Some highlights include:

-Fully paid benefits at the Kaiser rate, retro to January 2026 through 2027 for all groups (employee, employee + one, and employee plus family).
-4.5% raise, retro July 2025.
-4.5% total 26/27 (3% raise July 2026,1.5% raise January 2027).
-Increased stipends (15%) plus several new stipends.

A HUGE “Thank you” to our amazing negotiations team for their year long commitment to this process.