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Article: Lake Country teachers agree to contract; Total compensation set to rise over 4% each year
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2006
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Delafield Teachers in the Lake Country School District have
agreed to changes in health insurance, retirement benefits for future
teachers and a host of other measures as part of a new two-year
contract.
In exchange, the teachers will receive a 3.82% salary boost for
the 2005-'06 school year and 3.37% the following year, said Robert
Butler, a staff attorney with the Wisconsin Association of School
Boards, who negotiated on behalf of the Lake Country School Board.
Combined with benefit increases, Lake Country teachers' total
compensation package is expected to rise by 4.54% in the first year
and by 4.6% in 2006-'07, Butler said.
"I think both sides got things," Butler said. "It's a higher ...