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Let me get this right, the proposed and rejected contract "would have given teachers 3 percent raises for each year of a three-year contract. That offer would have given 10th-step teachers, who make up about 80 percent of the city’s 900 teachers, almost $80,000 in the current year."

This offer was rejected by WTU, but it "not about the money, it's about the kids...." OK, fine, then negotiate, take the moral high ground because it's "for the kids" and offer to take no pay raise in order to get your co-ops, weighting, and stanines, whatever the hll that is. That's what negotiating is, give and take. Prove it's not about the money WTU, give up the money and get everything else you want, you know....for the children.