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The union wants a 6% increase in salaries for 2024-25 and 4.75% increase for 2025-26, with no freeze in health benefits. The district says it is offering 3% salary hikes in each of the next three years, but there are conditions.

Both projects focus on restoring the landscape closer to the way nature made it as the best way to address a number of problems while also enhancing and expanding habitat.

The one-year contract, which is retroactive to July 1, calls for a $2.75 per hour raise for members of the Kentfield Education Support Professionals Association.

The administration and classified support staffers remain at an impasse over the size of a salary increase and paid vacation policy.

The Kentfield School District and its classified workers union this week jointly declared an impasse in contract talks for the 2023-24 school year.

Akron Public Schools is currently exploring four options to close, relocate and even add schools. But Chief Operations Officer Steve Thompson says only one can be approved.

Should Akron Public Schools build a new school in the Kenmore neighborhood? How many schools should be closed or relocated amid declining enrollment? And how much debt should be taken on, if any, to fund new facilities? The Akron Board of Education is deciding on a new facilities plan.