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Teachers, School District reach tentative contract

Posted by matsublog

Posted: May 9, 2008 - 2:29 pm

From Mat-Su editor Joe Ditzler --

The Mat-Su School District and its teachers announced a tentative agreement, reached Thursday night, on a two-year contract.
The main points:
* A 4 percent pay hike next school year and 3.75 percent the following year.
* Payment of health insurance premiums continues as in the previous year, 90 percent by the district and 10 percent by members of the Mat-Su Education Association. MSEA pays anything above a 12 percent increase in premiums in the second year, said union president George Stuart.
* Teachers get two more paid working days in the second year, basically to allow them more time to prepare for parent conferences, Stuart said.
The 1,200-member association meets today to review the contract and has 10 days to ratify it. If ratified it goes next to the School Board in June.
More coming on this story in the ADN online and in print.


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  2     May 10, 2008 - 11:43am | rfn

Nice package!

Will it be financed by laying off some teachers so the remaining ones can have raises?

Of course administrators will be safe.

Or will there be new taxes?

Or just increases in existing ones?

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  1     May 9, 2008 - 6:46pm | vhsmithtc

Good reporting!

I'm a teacher and was not able to drive down to the meeting this evening. I was waiting to hear some news. ADN online was the first place I read the good report. Thank you for good reporting.

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