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Teachers urge Palo Alto board to use reserves to close pay gap as bargaining resumes
Summary
More than a dozen teachers and union leaders told the board that rising district reserves and recent surpluses contrast with stagnating educator pay; the PAEA president delivered roughly 3,000 member messages ahead of May 18 negotiations and pressed for a settlement reflecting district values.
PAEA President Tom Culbertson (speaker 13) told trustees the union had collected about 3,000 personal messages from members urging the board to prioritize a new contract ahead of bargaining scheduled for May 18.
"We saw a $114,000,000 reserve, 10 times what the state requires. We saw a $26,000,000 surplus generated since our last contract," Culbertson said, adding that those figures underline the union’s case that the district has room to improve compensation and support for staff.
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