Teachers reach tentative deal on furloughs

03-01-2010

By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego

San Diego Unified and its teachers union have finally struck a tentative agreement over educators' working conditions and pay after more than a year-and-a-half of bargaining. The deal could help the school district make ends meet in the middle of budget cuts. The agreement, which must be approved by the school board and the members of the teachers union, is not yet official. It includes five furlough days for the next two school years -- unpaid days off that equal a roughly 2.7 percent pay cut annually -- and an increase in what educators pay for healthcare. Those concessions are a key part of the school district's current plan to balance its budget. But there were wins for the teachers union too: Stricter rules to control class sizes. (more...)

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