Tuesday, December 4, 2012
LEAD 300 and District 300 reached a tentative agreement late Tuesday.
Over 20,000 District 300 students and 1,300 teachers will return to school Wednesday following a one-day strike. The strike ended after LEAD 300 and District 300 officials reached a tentative agreement for a new three-year contract late Tuesday night. The agreement still needs to be ratified by LEAD 300 and accepted by the District 300 School Board, which is not expected to happen before Dec. 18. Details surrounding the agreement are not being released at this time. "It was through the combined efforts of LEAD's leadership team and the board's leadership team that we are able to end the strike," said school board member Joe Stevens in a Tuesday night press release. The agreement came after months of negotiations between LEAD 300, the …
Teachers took to the picket line at schools throughout District 300 on Tuesday, Dec. 4, during the first day of a strike.
Check back to Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Patch for ongoing coverage on the District 300 strike.
For more updates, follow Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Patch on Facebook. It will be back-to-school Wednesday for District 300 teachers and students after a tentative agreement was reached late Tuesday between the district and LEAD 300. According to the District 300 website: We are pleased to report that LEAD 300 and the Board of Education have reached a tentative agreement for a new 3-year contract. The strike has ended, and school will be in session tomorrow, Wednesday, December 5, 2012. We believe the agreement that was reached is fair to the teachers and responsible to the taxpayers of the community. We are not releasing details of the proposal immediately to allow LEAD an opportunity to update its members. We will release the …
Monday, December 3, 2012
District 300 schools will be closed Tuesday as teachers strike.
Teachers in Community Unit School District 300 will go on strike Tuesday after the district and the teachers union, LEAD 300, could not reach a tentative contract agreement following a day-long bargaining session Monday. “We’ve been trying all day to avert this,” Mike Williamson, LEAD spokesman said Monday evening. “We began this morning by informing the Board's team that our members had rejected their final offer,” he said. “We hoped they would realize this meant our members needed the Board to make significant movement in order for us to ratify a contract.” The outstanding issues remain class size and compensation. While the board came down on class size, it is not a number acceptable for the union membership, Williamson said. As for pay…
Lorie
3:24 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Your right Dan!!! My son just came home from school (Jacobs). He said one of his teachers told the class that she had never been called more names as she was yesterday picketing? I think the teachers realized they did not have the publics support and lost a lot of respect ! more ›