{"id":185680,"date":"2025-08-29T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/185680\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:16:09","slug":"philadelphia-teachers-union-ratifies-3-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/185680\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia teachers union ratifies 3-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia teachers union released the details of its three-year contract with the Philadelphia School District after members voted to ratify the deal late Thursday \u2014 including a one-time bonus, a 3% annual pay raise and paid parental leave.\n<\/p>\n<p>The contract between the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Local 3 and the school district was announced Monday, the first day of school. It will go into effect Sept. 1 and continue through Aug. 31, 2028.\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition to teachers, the 14,000-member union represents counselors, classroom assistants, nurses, psychologists, secretaries and other education professionals.\n  <\/p>\n<p>According to the PFT, 70% of its members voted for the agreement.\n<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Steinberg, PFT\u2019s president, said in a statement that the terms of the contract represented \u201ctruly historic wins for our members.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Some of them include: five weeks of paid parental leave for members who are new parents, including those who adopt children; a 3% pay increase for all members in each year of the contract; a one-time, $1,400 bonus for all union members; and the elimination of a district policy that disciplined members for using sick days.\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the contract reduces barriers to becoming a senior career teacher, which has the highest pay level; increases the minimum pay grade of the lowest-paid paraprofessionals and increases annual allowances for nurses, psychologists and teachers.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":185681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,18729,1311,10774,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-185680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-education","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-school-district-of-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115114369802555591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}