Schools
Contract Deal Still Eludes Petaluma School District, Teachers Union
Request for state mediator comes after both sides failed to resolve conflicts at a Friday meeting.
Less than six weeks before students fill Petaluma classrooms, the school district and teachers union and have reached an impasse on contract talks for the 2013-2014 school year.
Both sides have requested a state mediator to help resolve their differences, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports.
A tentative deal between Petaluma City Schools District and the Petaluma Federation of Teachers reached in May was rejected by the union's membership, returning both sides to the bargaining table.
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Sticking points include a dispute over salary increases, adding 88 minutes to the kindergarten day four times a week, the report says. Also at issue is a controversial "parent portal" allowing parents to access student grades online.
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