Seattle school district, teachers union reach deal on new contract draft
Seattle Public Schools and its teachers union agreed to a draft of a new contract Saturday evening, according to a post on the Seattle Education Association’s Facebook page.
It awaits a vote from the union’s general membership, about 6,000 educators, on Tuesday. After that, the deal will need approval from the School Board.
What exactly they agreed to is unknown. Neither union nor district officials were immediately available for comment.
The new deal comes after a period of increased public demonstrations by the union, which had said on Wednesday that the two parties were still far apart on their proposals for teacher compensation. Many predicted the negotiations would carry the same suspense as last year’s, when the two parties reached a one-year deal only after the union authorized a strike to put pressure on the district.
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