SEATTLE—Classes will begin Wednesday in Seattle following a weeklong teachers strike that delayed the start of the new school year.
Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association announced Monday night that they had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, and after 5 p.m. Tuesday the district announced that classes would begin Wednesday morning.
The union’s membership voted earlier in the day to suspend the walkout pending ratification of the contract. It’s a three-year deal that will maintain ratios of special-education students to support staff, add baseline mental health staffing in all schools, and raise pay above inflation markers, the Seattle Education Association said, though the exact terms were not disclosed….