Labor & Economic News Blog

Monday, May 16, 2005

Closures tied to teachers contract
The new contract promised Seattle teachers that they would be at least the fifth-highest paid in the region by 2009 and that they would get the resources they needed to close the gap in achievement between white and minority students. The contract, along with two other agreements with SEA-represented office staff and paraprofessionals, will cost about $25 million over five years, officials say.
Left unspoken was how the district would pay for it after the first two years. (The district is reshuffling some funds to cover higher salary and benefits in the early years.) The contract accounts for about one-quarter of the district's $20 million budget shortfall in 2006-07.

 



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