The Boston Teachers Union signed a new, tentative agreement last week that will raise the pay for school staff and provide more critical resources for students across the city, including school nurses, mental health workers and paraprofessionals.
The three-year contract, signed Thursday, will go into effect if approved by teachers, paraprofessionals, substitutes and applied behavioral analysts in a vote on June 12, as well as by the School Committee.
“This agreement takes significant steps to address critical student needs that educators and families have long advocated for,” said Jessica Tang, president of the BTU, in a statement. “It represents important progress for students, parents, and educators towards creating the schools that students deserve, despite the state’s continual underfunding and shortchanging of public education at all levels across the Commonwealth.”