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Teachers and union members urge higher pay, warn of staffing losses; public commenters press board on working conditions
Summary
Multiple teachers, union representatives and early-career staff told the board that low pay and growing workloads threaten retention and student stability; union leaders encouraged the board to adopt proposed meet-and-confer recommendations including a 2% raise.
Members of the public, including teachers and the local union president, used the meeting's public-comment period to urge the board to adopt the meet-and-confer compensation recommendations and to warn that low pay and rising class sizes are prompting staff departures.
Kelly Blakesley, president of the Creighton Education Association, said the district lost 33 certified staff over the past year and urged approval of the union's recommended compensation adjustments (the meet-and-confer proposal). "Teacher working conditions are student learning conditions," Blakesley told…
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