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Teachers and union leaders urge Palm Beach board to accept magistrate%E2%80%99s 3.5% raise ahead of May impasse hearing
Summary
At the April school board meeting dozens of teachers, Classroom Teachers Association and Florida Education Association leaders pressed the board to adopt a neutral special magistrate%E2%80%99s recommended 3.5% recurring raise, saying the district can afford it and warning of staff departures; the matter remains pending ahead of a May 6 hearing.
At the April meeting of the School District of Palm Beach County, a long line of teachers, parents and union leaders urged the school board to accept a neutral special magistrate%E2%80%99s recommendation of a 3.5% recurring raise for teachers and staff as a labor impasse approaches.
Gordon Longhofer, president of the Classroom Teachers Association, told the board the magistrate%E2%80%99s recommendation was based on the evidence and that 3.5% would "cover inflation over the last 12 months and begin to close the gap" left by prior years. Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association, and dozens of classroom teachers echoed that assessment and warned that the district%E2%80%99s 1.5% plus…
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