{"id":7187,"date":"2024-05-23T06:08:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T09:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2024-05-23T06:08:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T09:08:50","slug":"new-agreement-reached-between-province-and-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/new-agreement-reached-between-province-and-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Agreement Reached Between Province and Teachers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Province and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) have successfully negotiated a new, three-year Teachers\u2019 Provincial Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new agreement is about an investment in students and student outcomes and supports teachers across the province. Ratification by NSTU members was announced today, May 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Students are at the core of our education system, a fact I truly feel is recognized by the agreement we\u2019ve successfully negotiated with the NSTU,&#8221; said Becky Druhan, Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development. &#8220;We\u2019ve heard from teachers about how to improve classroom conditions and outcomes and are acting on a shared commitment to create great learning and great working environments, both through this new agreement and through ongoing work at the departmental, regional and school levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the new agreement, one of the key initiatives to improve student conditions will be having a dedicated school counsellor or similar position in every school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new agreement will be posted online in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quick Facts:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nova Scotia has about 10,000 public school teachers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the current four-year Teachers\u2019 Provincial Agreement was finalized in 2020, and was effective August 1, 2019, to July 31, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the parties exchanged written proposals, beginning the bargaining process, in June 2023 and reached a tentative deal on April 26, 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : Provincial Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Province and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) have successfully negotiated a new, three-year Teachers\u2019 Provincial Agreement. The new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}