San Jose: Evergreen School District Agrees to Raises, Protect Class Sizes for Teachers

Evergreen School District officials agreed Wednesday night to give teachers a 4.5 percent raise over three years, bringing an end to 16 months of negotiations, a teacher’s association reported.

The raise is included in a contract drafted by the Evergreen Teachers Association. Eighty-eight percent of 520 educators in the association approved the contract before it went before the district, the teachers association said. The raise will provide a 0.5 percent retroactive raise for 2017, another 1.5 percent this year and 2.5 percent for the 2019-2020 school year.