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A 26-day strike led to an improved contract for 3,700 teachers, counselors, and librarians, including raises totaling 14.6% over three years.

The onus for this crisis, which will soon spread, lies squarely with legislators who determine a state budget every two years.

It’s a fight that teachers say has been brewing a long time.

Parents are joining Portland teachers on strike picket lines throughout the district — because they support what teachers are fighting for.

Nearly 4,500 teachers in Portland Public Schools began picketing Nov. 1 in the first-ever teachers strike at Oregon’s largest school district.

The vote means the union of 1,350 school secretaries, teaching assistants, and other classified staff, is back to the bargaining table.

PAT is pursuing a strategy known as “bargaining for the common good,” incorporating community members’ ideas into their contract.

A new report paid for by the district confirms what union tradespeople who maintain schools have been saying for years.

Teachers also want better security measures, an enforceable limit to class sizes, and public school for every child over the age of 3.

As skies dumped snow on Portland, administrators were warm in home offices, but night custodians battled blizzard conditions to get to work.