{"id":219342,"date":"2025-09-11T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219342\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:04:14","slug":"philadelphia-board-of-ed-approves-3-year-contract-with-teachers-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219342\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Board of Ed. approves 3-year contract with teachers&#8217; union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/B0ADCB296DB207006A64D20E6C4975E8.jpg\" alt=\"Philly teachers' union ratify new contract\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia<\/a> Board of Education voted Thursday to approve a new three-year contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/fox29.com\/tag\/education\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the teachers&#8217; union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Board held a special action meeting on Thursday night to vote on the new contract, which the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers ratified last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The two sides reached a deal on the eve of the first day of school this year.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/philadelphia-teachers-union-ratify-new-three-year-contract\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Philadelphia teachers&#8217; union ratifies new three-year contract<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The new contract affects approximately 14,000 teachers, counselors, nurses, secretaries and more. Under the deal, staff will get 3% annual salary increases, bonuses and five weeks of paid parental leave.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The new agreement also increases stipends for classroom and health supplies, offers support for new nurses to get certified and more.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We are pleased about the ratification of the three-year agreement with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers contract that both honors the hard work of our educators and maintains our record of strong financial stewardship,&#8221; Superintendent Tony B. Watlington, Sr. said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Five decades of research has shown us \u2014 that highly qualified, well-supported, and stable teachers over time are the number one factor in accelerating student achievement,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The agreement goes into effect immediately, and continues through Aug. 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this story is from a press release from the Philadelphia Board of Education and previous FOX 29 reports.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/education\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Philadelphia Board of Education voted Thursday to approve a new three-year contract with the teachers&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,407,50,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-219342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219342","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=219342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}