Statement from Mayor Bowser, Chancellor Ferebee, and WTU President Pogue Lyons on Tentative Contract Agreement

(Washington, DC) – As we speak, Mayor Muriel Bowser and Chancellor Lewis Ferebee joined Washington Academics’ Union (WTU) President Jacqueline Pogue Lyons in releasing the next assertion after DC Public Colleges (DCPS) and WTU management reached a tentative contract settlement:

“The greater than 5,000 DCPS educators represented on this settlement play an important position in making a loving, difficult, and joyful college expertise for 1000’s of younger folks throughout our metropolis each single day. As we speak, we’re proud to succeed in an settlement that delivers sturdy again pay in recognition of the tireless efforts and sacrifice our academics have remodeled the previous three years. With a 12 p.c improve in wage over 4 years and a 4 p.c retention bonus, this settlement gives our educators with aggressive raises that may assist the District to retain and entice the perfect expertise for our colleges.

“We love our academics, and we would like Washington, DC, to be the primary metropolis for academics—a metropolis the place academics keep at their colleges and stay in our metropolis. Past pay and advantages, it was vital for this settlement to mirror the respect the District has for academics and the work they do for DC’s college students. We’ll proceed to work collectively and throughout authorities to verify our colleges, academics, and college students have every thing they should do nicely.

“Collectively, we wish to thank all of our DCPS academics for constantly making DC proud, constructing and preserving the belief of our households, and above all, loving and empowering our younger folks. We consider this tentative settlement is truthful for academics and good for college students. Our hope is that WTU members are in a position to vote on it quickly and that we are able to ship it to the Council of the District of Columbia in December for approval.”

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