After months of tense salary negotiations, Salt Lake City teachers will get a 4.1% raise — with the final vote of approval for the compromise coming from the district’s board of education Tuesday night.
Board members overwhelmingly supported the increase, which is lower than what educators had asked for and lower, too, than surrounding districts approved this year. But after threats of a strike, the agreement was welcomed as a way to move forward.
Talks initially stalled in June, and Salt Lake City School District had to bring in a federal mediator to help it come to a consensus with the local teachers union.