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Superintendent: GAEA ratified 2024–27 contract; students return after 10-day strike
Summary
Superintendent Annie Gardner said the GAEA teachers union ratified a 2024–27 contract on Dec. 2 and the district ratified it in an emergency session, ending a strike that removed students for 10 student-contact days; the deal includes makeup days, a 7% initial raise (9% for top-scale teachers) and insurance provisions.
Annie Gardner, superintendent, announced that the Greater Albany teachers union (GAEA) ratified a new 2024–27 contract on Dec. 2 and that the district ratified the agreement in an emergency session, ending a strike that began Nov. 12 and kept students out of school for 10 student-contact days. "We now have a contract," Gardner said, adding that 87% of union voters approved the settlement.
The agreement restores most lost instructional time: Gardner said the parties agreed to make up eight of the missed student-contact days and to add a ninth teacher workday at the end of the year so teachers are not left without a work day. "As we worked towards an agreement, our priority was to restore as many of those student contact days as we could," Gardner said.
Why it matters: the settlement returns students to classrooms while shifting the district’s near-term focus to healing relationships and…
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