District, Champaign teachers' union reach agreement
By Jodi Heckel
Thursday September 25, 2008
Vanda Bidwell/The News-Gazette
Garden Hills second-grade teacher Betty Rowell leads a chant at a rally at the Mellon building in Champaign on Wednesday. Approximately 200 Champaign teachers and their supporters attended the event to show support for their bargaining team.
CHAMPAIGN – The Champaign school district and its teachers' union reached a tentative contract agreement Wednesday night.
They reached the agreement after four and a half hours of negotiating, with the help of a federal mediator. It was the third time the two sides had met with the mediator.
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