The Nation - News from Aug. 27, 1985
A tentative contract agreement averted a teachers’ strike in Detroit; but, in Chicago and Philadelphia, threatened walkouts could keep 625,000 students on extended vacations. Detroit teachers tentatively accepted a 10% raise this year and an additional 5.5% next year. Chicago teachers, who have a strike deadline of next Tuesday, were deadlocked in talks with the Board of Education. Philadelphia teachers have threatened to strike but have not set a date.
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