There’s finally labor peace between teachers and management in the Nevada Joint Union High School District. A tentative contract agreement has been agreed to for the current school year, after a state mediation session necessitated by an impasse in negotiations. Union President Eric Mayer says the agreement includes a four-percent salary increase for each of the remaining two years of the contract, plus an additional two-and-a-half percent for this school year. But that’s not the amount they originally proposed…

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Also, in exchange for their raise, Mayer says class size is going up, which teachers did not want to see…

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Teachers must still ratify the agreement. The negotiations were for what’s called “re-openers”, which allows a limited number of issues to be brought up again during each year of the contract. And Mayer says they’ll likely re-visit salary this spring for the last year of the contract, which expires in 2024, along with class size.