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The agreement includes a 2% raise as well as a retroactive raise to the beginning of last year which would be paid out in a lump sum. Once the district and TALB negotiating teams reached the tentative agreement a few weeks ago a process that took 18 months the TALB executive board approved it, and it went before the TALB members for a vote. The teachers voted overwhelmingly to ratify, with 81.1% of those who voted casting their vote to ratify, and 18.9% voting against.
By rule, the LBUSD Board of Education gets the last vote and is expected to hear the item and vote on it at next week’s April 28 meeting. The board approved an addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding at last week’s meeting, which addressed some additional COVID-19 safety protocols.
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Evianna Van Santvoord, who is in kindergarten, does her schoolwork at home on March 18, 2020 in San Anselmo, Calif. | Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
Newsom pushes February school reopening plan in California
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SACRAMENTO Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $2 billion push Wednesday to reopen California elementary schools for the youngest students in February, offering incentives and testing to school districts that resume classroom instruction.
Most of California s 6 million public school students have been learning remotely since the pandemic forced widespread closures in March. While a smattering of districts opened this fall when infection rates were lower, most kept campuses shut and stayed online, especially those in large metropolitan areas.