Bargaining teams for the Ottawa Township High School board and the schools’ teachers met for more than eight hours Friday, but failed to reach
an agreement that would end the contract dispute that has kept students and teachers out of classrooms since September 30.
The bargaining session, the longest in the dispute, ended after midnight.
The teachers will meet Saturday afternoon to discuss the latest round of bargaining.
Illinois Education Association is an association of more than 130,000 members composed of Illinois elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty and staff, educational support professionals, retired educators and college students preparing to become teachers.
From Bob & Barb Gilhaus: (Bob was a former Homer, Il teacher-longest teacher strike in the state of IL and Barb was on the BOD at the time of the strike) “Tough Times Don’t Last, Tough Teachers Do.”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)