KELSO — Classes in the Kelso School District were set to resume with a two-hour late start Monday after the teachers union and the district reached a tentative contract agreement.
The Daily News reports that the faculty ratified the pact Sunday evening. All 226 teachers present at a membership meeting voted to approve the contract.
The Kelso Education Association has been negotiating with the district since April and had been working without a contract since June 30.
The agreement ends an eight-day teacher’s strike that began Sept. 16. The strike was declared illegal by a Cowlitz County judge Friday and would have saddled the union with $2,000-a-day fines if work did not resume Monday.
Kelso School District serves more than 4,500 students. The union represents some 300 teachers and other certificated educators.
