There will be more money and more flexibility for teachers, as the city's largest teachers' union announced a new agreement with Mayor Eric Adams' administration on Tuesday. JessicaMooreTV has all the details.
-- There will be more money and more flexibility for teachers, as the city's largest teachers' union announced a new agreement withCBS2 has learned how the new contract will change how students learn in and out of school.
"Public education is one of the most important things you do as a city and society because if you don't educate you incarcerate," Adams said. After months of negotiations and protests, the mayor announced a tentative five-year contract with the United Federation of Teachers, which represents roughly 120,000 city educators, para-professionals, nurses and guidance counselors.Annual pay raises across the board, starting at 3% and increasing to 3.
"This agreement allows us to do what the mayor has said from beginning, which is to reimagine how we do school in the first place," Banks said."We said to them in this contract, we heard you loud and clear," Mulgrew said."No matter what has been thrown at them -- the pandemic, a large number of children seeking asylum -- they don't run away from it. They say we need to work harder, organize more food pantries and clothing drives.
The tentative agreement will next go to union members for a vote. Ballots are due by the end of the school year.
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