Sto-Rox students are almost all in poverty, and their teachers are among the county’s lowest paid

Contract negotiations for Sto-Rox teachers have stalled amid district poverty and financial challenges. Union leaders cite the impact of charter schools and economic pressures as factors in the difficult bargaining process.
Union leaders say contract negotiations broke down in June after the district failed to work with them. Tough economics and the effects of charter schools are behind the hard bargaining.
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