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Negotiations Meetings:

• Thursday, November 13, 4:30 p.m. Norton High School 

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BARGAINING UPDATE: 

September 30, 2025

The team reviewed the District’s salary proposal in detail. Despite their claim that “no one is losing money,” our analysis shows:

• Many mid- and upper-step educators lose projected earnings over three years compared to the old grid,

• Their proposal includes an extra day of work without additional compensation, and

• Their proposal has not modeled individual three-year salary impacts.

We also confirmed that the District’s cited $872,000 cost includes normal step movement - only $210,000 is new money. The NTA presented an alternative migration model that keeps the basic structure but corrects inequities and ensures fair increases for all members over time. The District said they will need to cost this out before responding.

BARGAINING UPDATE: September 30, 2025

The NTA team met with the School Committee on Tuesday night. We reached tentative agreements on paraprofessional leave and caseload review. Much of the discussion focused on salary migration. The NTA highlighted major errors in the district’s tables and submitted a counter proposal that corrected these errors to ensure that no one loses pay and that early steps are strengthened to attract and retain teachers. The district rejected the NTA’s counter proposal and offered no reasoning for the rejection. We also pushed for 2.5% annual increases for all stipends - including teacher leaders, fair COLAs for paras/SLPAs/COTAs, and rejected weakening of  protections around layoffs (RIF) and paraprofessional job security. The district rejected several of our proposals (class size, HS duty limits, packing time) and tied withdrawal of their para non-renewal proposal to changes in RIF language, which was not decided. The conversation was tense at times, but NTA stood firm on fairness, transparency, and equity for all members. Work on salary migration and COLA adjustments will continue in upcoming sessions. 

BARGAINING UPDATE: August 25, 2025

Your team reached tentative agreements on class coverage, job sharing, para long-term subbing pay, and committee representation. We pushed for stronger caseload review protections and raised major concerns about the new salary grid, which increases starting pay but gives smaller raises at the top steps and ties in an extra workday—something members have consistently opposed. The School Committee will share a migration chart so we can better analyze step impacts. Salaries, workload protections, and the extra day remain key issues as bargaining continues.