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Beavercreek and Valley View have reached tentative agreements that still have to be ratified by unions and/or school boards — Beavercreek’s school board was set to vote Thursday night.
That leaves Dayton, Troy, Mad River, Northridge, Bethel, Greenon and New Lebanon still with negotiations ongoing. Dayton’s situation has been the most volatile, with the parties engaging a federal mediator, only to have those talks fall apart last week.
Teachers unions actually represent all of a district’s “certified” staff, including counselors, librarians and therapists. While that group gets most of the attention, many school districts also have unions for their “classified” staff — secretaries, bus drivers, custodians and others.
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Kettering, Bellbrook, Fairborn and Vandalia-Butler are among the districts that already finalized new contracts for those classified staff. But a handful of districts only recently started negotiating with those groups.
“We weren’t going to do both at the same time because of calendars,” said Beavercreek Treasurer Penny Rucker. “It’s crazy trying to get full days back to back (for negotiations) in the spring when there’s graduation upcoming and school’s crazy. It’s our busy time.”
This news outlet is collecting all of the completed teachers union contracts and will analyze them this month to see what pay, benefit and working condition issues are changing for the years to come.
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Early data suggests many teachers will get 2 to 3 percent annual pay increases under their new agreements.
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