Columbus School strike is over. Classes start today.
source-https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2022/08/28/columbus-education-association-new-deal-with-columbus-city-schools/65458868007/
snip-Columbus teachers union returning to class after approving contract with 4% annual raises
Megan Henry
Cole Behrens
The Columbus Dispatch
Teachers and other members of the Columbus Education Association will return to work Monday after voting 71% to 29% to approve a new three-year contract with Columbus City Schools that includes a 4% raise each year.
The CEA bargaining team disclosed the details of the contract Sunday to members at a mass membership meeting at Huntington Park, where members of the 4,500-member union — which represents teachers, librarians, nurses, counselors, psychologists and other education professionals — voted by paper ballot.
With the agreement, Columbus City students will return to in-person classes Monday. The Columbus City Schools Board of Education has scheduled a special meeting to ratify the agreement at 8 a.m. Monday, about a half-hour after students at some schools will have begun in-person classes.
Highlights of the three-year Columbus agreement
A 4% raise each year of the three-year agreement.
A contractual guarantee that all student learning areas will be climate controlled no later than the start of the 2025-2026 school year, including installation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning in buildings currently without HVAC, and in buildings that currently only have partial HVAC.
Reductions in class size caps in all grade bands, lowering the number of students in every classroom by two over the course of the contract.
The first-ever limitations on the numbers of buildings assigned to each elementary art, music and physical education teachers, with scheduling intended for one specialist per subject area per building.
The first-ever contractual limitation on the number of CEA positions that can be outsourced to out-of-town corporations, "thereby ensuring that our students are educated by experienced professionals from our local community."
A paid parental leave program for teachers."
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