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Striking Seattle teachers and supporters march on a picket line Tuesday, September 15, 2015, at Greenwood Elementary School in Seattle.

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.

The Seattle Education Association’s representative assembly then voted to suspend their strike pending the results of an all-union vote, which allowed students to return to classes last Thursday.

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”...

The Seattle Times reports that of the estimated 3,000 members who attended the meeting, 83 percent of teachers, 87 percent of paraprofessionals and 96 percent of office professionals voted to approve the contract, according to the Seattle Education Association.

A judge in Cowlitz County Superior Court has declared the Kelso teacher strike illegal and ordered educators back to the classroom Tuesday.

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.

Union leaders had hoped to oust the metric – which tracks teachers’ performance using changes in student test scores from one year to the next – from the district’s teacher evaluation system.

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.