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San Diego Unified reaches tentative agreement with teachers union

San Diego Unified and the unions representing teachers and paraeducators in the district have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Under the agreement, teachers would get 10% raises retroactive to July 2022. On top of that, the teachers will get another 5% raise next year.

Other benefits included in the deal include doubling paid maternity leave to six weeks and permitting more teachers to be paid for work they do during after-school activities. Smaller class sizes are also part of the deal: Transitional kindergarten classes would have a maximum of 24 students, and kindergarten through third-grade classes would not have more than 29 students.

“We were able to have a very ambitious platform and achieve almost everything in that platform,” Kyle Weinberg, the union president, told the Union-Tribune. A ratification vote by union members will begin Thursday.

Lamont Jackson, the district’s superintendent, told the Union-Tribune that the deal “is the culmination of a common goal to provide the best educational experience possible for students, teachers and staff.”