OAN’s Brooke Mallory
3:23 PM – Monday, November 27, 2023
After more than three weeks without classes, the largest school district in Oregon said late on Sunday that it had struck a tentative agreement with its teachers union and that close to 45,000 students will begin attending classes again on Monday.
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Teachers who have been protesting salaries, class sizes, and preparation time since November 1st must still cast their votes on the accord. The school board must also accept it, but the union decided that lessons could continue while those votes were taking place.
Students at Portland Public Schools (PPS) missed eleven days of classes prior to the district’s start of a week-long Thanksgiving break.
“We are relieved to have our students returning to school and know that being out of school for the…
