With the Newton teacher strike over, statewide union leaders said they expect more districts elsewhere to demand that student mental health supports be included in new contracts.
The final few hours inside the negotiating room at Newton Public Schools to reach a deal on a new teacher contract were tense. The teachers' union and school committee had reached a compromise on most everything except conditions over teacher prep time and the return to work agreement.
Zilles, who has led the Newton Teachers Association since 2010, said he wasn't surprised by the high level of attendance at the picket lines every day, despite the fact that teacher strikes are "It reinforces and expands meaningful support for our students, meaningfully increases compensation for all of our employees, especially classroom aides," he said.
"This mental health crisis — which began well before the pandemic — has only gotten worse since the pandemic," Page said."So is a very key way to address it. But two weeks of no school proved highly disruptive to families — and for some parents, a little too close to the memory of pandemic-era school closures.
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