Coeur d'Alene School Board approves contract, 6% raise
LOREN BENOIT/Press file Eighth-grade science teacher Michael Emory leads his class in a lesson on Yellowstone calderas at Woodland Middle School in February. The Coeur d’Alene School Board approved the contract agreement for the upcoming school year.
The Coeur d'Alene School Board approved the contract agreement for the upcoming school year during Monday evening's school board meeting.
The contract gives teachers, bus drivers, classroom aides, food-service workers, custodians and other employees with Coeur d'Alene Public Schools a pay raise of 6 percent.
The negotiation process was amicable: The Coeur d'Alene Education Association, which represents certified employees, and district negotiators, representing the Board of Trustees, reached an agreement during a daylong negotiations session last Tuesday.
CEA membership approved the contract during a meeting Friday.
— Devin Weeks