LFHS Teachers Remain Without a Contract
Latest mediation fails to produce an accord. No future date set for talks but sides remain hopeful with school opening in just over a month.
With the opening of school August 27, the Lake Forest High School teachers remain without a contract with both the educators and the administration claiming issues of compensation and benefits remain to be resolved. The District 115 Board of Education and the Lake Forest Educators Association (LFEA) did not reach an agreement Thursday when they met with a mediator in an attempt to resolve their differences, according to both Board President Sharon Golan and LFEA spokesperson Chuck Gress. “The mediation session did not produce an agreement and we do not have a date yet for another,” Golan said. The dispute has been going on a year. The parties could not agree on a long term contract last year and settled for a one-year pact. “We presented a…
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Laura
11:03 am on Sunday, July 29, 2012
Let them walk, let them leave. In an economic time when the citizens of the community are struggling financially, and most have to either pay into their healthcare of pay it completely, the teachers are being unreasonable. They are some of the most well paid teachers in the STATE. If it isn't good enough here, go somewhere else. I have little sympathy for the teachers, who have more days off than… more ›