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Salaries are the main sticking point with teachers saying they want to be paid more equally to the teachers in nearby school districts.

The tentative contract agreement wasn’t reached until almost two weeks later, after a five-day strike.

On another: an equally passionate gathering of teachers, students, and parents at Summit Sierra-one of Seattle’s first-ever public charter schools-wearing bright-blue “Keep Our Schools Open” T-shirts, toting hand-drawn “Don’t Close My School”...

On Thursday morning, Bob Miller, a president of the Prospect Heights Education Association, the local teachers union, had expressed optimism that officials would, “get our kids back to the classroom, and our families can get back to our normal routines”. A call to the...

Classes resume on Thursday, as an arrangement was met Tuesday.

A tentative deal was reached between Seattle’s school district and teachers’ union, ending a five-day strike.

In a press conference today the Seattle Public Schools Board said a state mediator would be in place Thursday morning to help negotiate the matter.