Wanjiru Waweru, Jadetimes Staff
W. Waweru is a Jadetimes news reporter covering American News
Beverly, Massachusetts – Teachers are on strike on November 8, participating their community in Gloucester in a force for proper wages, lower class sizes, and paid parental leave. Joanna Seeber, a culinary arts teacher, explained the agreement to improve their work environment in education.
“We’ve made tentative agreements on a few things and we feel like we can work with them on a few things, and we feel like we can work with them on a few things but we still feel like we’re far off on a lot of the major issues,” said Seeber.
Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester are impatiently adapting on the following of working let alone with a contract. Allyson Farrell is a history teacher explained about the final decision about 40 days of advocacy in the Beverly Public School, she made a clear statement, “I think the final straw was just, we’ve been working over 40 days in the building without a contact.”
Stephanie Andrews, a German Teacher reported that there is a broader situation of underfunding in education across the state, she stated this issue: “The commonwealth needs to fund education. We live in a blue bubble and that's wonderful but our teachers have been underpaid for a long time. And this is a wave that's happening across the state and it does not need to be like this.”
“Budget projections indicate a deficit between $4 and $7 million in coming budget cycle. These figures are concerning and underscore the need to remain fiscally responsible," Gloucester Mayor Greg Verga stated.
“This is really hard on students, really hard on parents. We have been in touch with all involved on this on both sides and just have strongly encouraged people to work to resolve this as quickly as possible so our young people can be back in school,” Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy stated.
Injunctions that goes against between Beverly and Gloucester’s teacher contributions. Teachers in the public school systems deserves a higher amount of wage on their hard work and dedication in their education career.
