Woburn Teacher Salaries Rising 6 Percent With New Contract

WOBURN, MA — Unionized Woburn Public Schools teachers will get 2 percent raises in each year of a three-year contract ratified by the school committee last week. Both sides and Mayor Scott Galvin praised the deal, according to The Daily Times Chronicle. The agreement includes additional prep time for elementary school teachers and a retroactive two percent raise for this year. The new deal expires at the start of the 2020-21 school year.

"I think everyone will agree this is in the best interests of the teachers, the taxpayers, and most importantly, for the students. There's a lot of good things in there for the students," Galvin told The Times Chronicle, which first reported this story.

The two sides also agreed to consider a proposal to expand the extended prep time to middle school teachers in the future. In 2016, the last time teachers got a new contract, the union implemented a work-to-rule action as the two sides struggled to reach an agreement.

For more on this story, see The Daily Times Chronicle.