Milford votes will ponder a teacher contract along with Sept. 9 party primaries
By Kathy Cleveland, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H. | |
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
Due to an unusual, court-ordered special school district meeting, the ballot will include a warrant article that would give teachers
The
Negotiations on the three-year contract resolved all but one issue: the
The factfinder recommended that the board drop that proposal and that the teachers' association drop its proposal for a 2.25 percent cost of living adjustment in the contract's third year.
The teachers had agreed to accept the nonbinding recommendations, but the
The
The warrant article needs only a simple majority to pass. If it passes, the school tax rate would go up
For the contract's second year, the cost would be
Passage of the warrant article would also give the board authority to sign a contract with teachers, said
A deliberative session for this article saw some discussion about whether to "zero out" the item -- that is, reduce the dollar amount to zero, effectively negating any vote. That did not happen, however.
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