{"id":1387651,"date":"2019-02-14T07:21:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=967263"},"modified":"2019-02-14T07:21:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:21:28","slug":"denver-strike-ends-teachers-to-get-big-raises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/denver-strike-ends-teachers-to-get-big-raises\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver strike ends; teachers to get big raises"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AP19043028102114-620x413.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium-large size-medium-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AP19043028102114-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AP19043028102114-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AP19043028102114-325x217.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AP19043028102114-1240x826.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014\u00a0Denver Public Schools and teachers have reached a deal to end their three day strike that includes raising pay by up to 11 percent, with built-in cost-of-living increases and more opportunities for future salary hikes.<\/p>\n<p>They announced the deal Thursday morning after marathon negotiations and encouraged teachers to return to their classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The deal still must be ratified by the full union membership. More than half the district&#8217;s teachers went on strike Monday after negotiations over pay broke down.<\/p>\n<p>A key sticking point was the teachers&#8217; demand that the system rely less on bonuses for educators in high-poverty and high-priority schools. The union says that question will now be studied.<\/p>\n<p>The district sees bonuses as key to boosting the academic performance of poor and minority students.<\/p>\n<p>The strike was the latest action in a wave of teacher activism since last spring, when teachers walked off the job in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/denver-strike-ends-teachers-to-get-big-raises\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014\u00a0Denver Public Schools and teachers have reached a deal to end their three day strike that includes raising pay by up to 11 percent, with built-in cost-of-living increases and more opportunities for future salary hikes. They announced the deal Thursday morning after marathon negotiations and encouraged teachers to return to their classrooms. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-06 14:23:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}