KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – There is contractual peace again in Kalamazoo Public Schools.
The school board held a special meeting last night to ratify the overdue teachers union contract.
Hundreds of teachers, ancillary staff and behavior specialists have been working without a contract for the last two months and the impasse in negotiations over wage increases had created some tension, and protests at school board meetings.
Union president Heather Reid.
She says they got what they were asking for.
Reid says the 4% came in different provisions. Board president Ti’Anna Harrison read the terms of the contract.
Board members were also glad to have it settled, as we hear from Patti Sholler-Barber, Jenny Hill, and Yvonne Payton.
All teachers will get a $650 planning time stipend that had previously only been available to elementary teachers.
The Kalamazoo Education Association has over 800 members, making this contract one of the largest single expenditures of taxpayers money in Kalamazoo County.
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