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Settlement Reached in Strongsville Teachers Strike

The 'healing process begins,' School Board president says

 

The Strongsville Board of Education and teachers' union have reached a tentative settlement in the eight-week-old strike.

The deal, announced just after 8 p.m. Friday following a negotiating session, means teachers could be back in their classrooms early next week. 

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"The past eight weeks have been difficult, but healing process begins today," School Board President David Frazee said.

Details of the tentative contract agreement won't be disclosed until both sides ratify the agreement.

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But that could come quickly. The Strongsville Education Association is expected to meet Saturday to ratify, and the School Board would then call an emergency meeting to do the same.

Schools may be closed on Monday so that substitutes can retrieve their personal items from the buildings.

Teachers could return in the afternoon to set up their classrooms.

The settlement in the eight-week-old strike comes a week before many striking teachers would have to pay upwards of $3,000 to continue their health insurance.

A parent group said this week that at least 60 teachers wanted to cross the picket line if the strike didn't end.

And it comes just hours after more than 400 teachers, supporters and other union members gathered on the City Commons for a rally at which they criticized the School Board for allowing the strike to continue.

The deal is a day late for many Strongsville High School seniors, though. Students who are involved in senior projects finished classes on Friday.


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